Website:
sunstripe.com
Job details:
Sunstripe is seeking a Lead – Power Markets & Trading Advisory to establish and lead our power markets practice across the United States, United Kingdom, and India.
The role will build Sunstripe's capabilities across power market analytics, forecasting, dispatch, trading advisory, and asset optimization, supporting utilities, IPPs, renewable and energy storage developers, and large energy consumers. This is a practice-building leadership position requiring a combination of power market expertise, quantitative capability, commercial judgment, and strong industry relationships.
Key Responsibilities:
- Establish and lead Sunstripe's Power Markets & Trading Advisory practice across India / US / UK.
- Build capabilities in load, generation, renewable, and power price forecasting.
- Advise clients on scheduling, dispatch, bidding, and market participation strategies.
- Develop trading and optimization strategies for BESS, renewable, hybrid, conventional generation, and flexible-load portfolios.
- Support participation across day-ahead, real-time/intraday, balancing, ancillary services, capacity, and other applicable markets.
- Develop BESS revenue-stacking, cycling, bidding, and dispatch optimization strategies.
- Support utilities and asset owners with portfolio optimization, generation scheduling, power procurement, and market strategy.
- Develop forecasting and optimization solutions for large energy consumers, including data centers.
- Evaluate merchant exposure, PPAs, tolling structures, hedging approaches, and other commercial structures.
- Build quantitative models and analytical tools for forecasting, market simulation, dispatch optimization, and revenue analysis.
- Work closely with Sunstripe's Power Systems, BESS, and Data Center Engineering practices to connect market opportunities with physical asset and grid constraints.
- Build relationships with utilities, IPPs, developers, traders, market operators, exchanges, investors, and large energy consumers.
- Lead client engagements, proposals, business development, and development of new advisory offerings.
- Recruit and develop a team across power markets, quantitative analytics, forecasting, dispatch, and optimization.
Candidate Profile
- 10+ years of experience in power markets, electricity trading, market advisory, dispatch, forecasting, or asset optimization.
- Strong understanding of wholesale electricity markets and power system operations.
- Experience with forecasting, scheduling, bidding, dispatch, trading analytics, and/or portfolio optimization.
- Experience with BESS and renewable generation is strongly preferred.
- Strong quantitative, analytical, and commercial capabilities.
- Experience in one or more of the Indian, US and UK power markets, with multi-market experience preferred.
- Strong client-facing and relationship-building capabilities.
- Ability to translate complex market dynamics into clear commercial, investment, and operational recommendations.
- Experience building a market advisory, trading analytics, consulting, or similar practice is highly desirable.
The Mandate
Build a differentiated Power Markets & Trading Advisory practice that combines market intelligence, quantitative analytics, and Sunstripe's engineering capabilities to help clients make better decisions on investment, contracting, forecasting, bidding, dispatch, and asset optimization.
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