Sr Power Trader - Gen Desk

Job description

Basic Purpose Facilitates power and gas trading activities through the development of hourly transaction plans and economic/ capacity position reporting. Trends and projects hourly demand, and economically dispatches generation resources for current and forward hours. Evaluates and determines optimal utilization of available energy resources in response to changing operating conditions, power and gas markets and contractual obligations on a real-time basis. Submits base schedules for available capacity and ancillary services for participation in the CAISO Western Energy Imbalance Market (EIM). Essential Duties and Responsibilities: Develops and implements operational plans for meeting customer demand while optimizing available resources. - Assesses real-time operating conditions relative to generation, transmission, fuel, pipeline capacity and other related elements. - Utilizes forecasting tools to trend and project hourly load forecasts for the current and forward real-time operating period. - Utilizes modeling tools to create transaction grids and operational plans, interprets results and identifies modeling errors. - Determines pricing and volume of purchase and sale transaction...