Real-Time Trader, West

About The Energy Authority

The Energy Authority is a public power-owned, nonprofit corporation with offices in Jacksonville, Florida, and Bellevue (Seattle), Washington. TEA provides public power utilities with access to advanced resources and technology systems so they can respond competitively in the changing energy markets. Through partnership with TEA, utilities benefit from an experienced organization that is singularly focused on deriving the maximum value of their assets from the market.

About The Energy Authority

The Energy Authority is a public power-owned, nonprofit corporation with offices in Jacksonville, Florida, and Bellevue (Seattle), Washington. TEA provides public power utilities with access to advanced resources and technology systems so they can respond competitively in the changing energy markets. Through partnership with TEA, utilities benefit from an experienced organization that is singularly focused on deriving the maximum value of their assets from the market.

TEA employees share a common sense of purpose. When TEA accomplishes its mission, the result is improved quality of life for the citizens and businesses of the communities our clients serve.

TEA employees exceed the expectations of those they serve, deliver services with the highest standards of fair, honest, and ethical behavior, set the standard for service and expertise in our industry, embody a spirit of collaboration, and embrace TEA's founding entrepreneurial spirit by seizing opportunities to deliver value.

If you are self-motivated, driven to deliver excellence, and passionate about your career, TEA is the perfect place for you.

It’s YOUR Future. It’s OUR Future.

Real-Time traders in Bellevue negotiate hourly energy transactions at various trading hubs across the Western US. We manage a diverse portfolio of power generation assets, including clean renewable hydroelectric power derived from a system of dams across the Federal Columbia River Power System. The clients that we serve consist of various-sized public utility districts located in Washington and Oregon, all of whom are not-for-profit and community-owned.

We collaborate with forward traders, portfolio managers, and analysts to build and deploy risk management strategies. Through economies-of-scale operations, depth and breadth of experience, and proprietary optimization technologies, we create value for our clients by maximizing the value of their assets in the bulk electric market thus helping to reduce costs to their rate-paying customers.

Successful traders apply strong financial skillsets and commercial instincts to inform sound decision-making in a highly competitive environment . We must monitor and respond quickly to large amounts of dynamic data across various software platforms, so attention to detail and multitasking are important strengths. Collaboration and teamwork are essential to accomplishing our goals, so we work on an open trade floor that is designed to facilitate quick communication and sharing of ideas.

Our market is 24/7, which means we work in grouped rotational shifts around the clock to serve the continual need for electric consumption. To balance these non-standard working hours, we also enjoy long stretches of time-off built into our schedules to recharge and devote towards personal interests.

• Simultaneously manages portfolios in real-time for multiple clients
• Forecasts hourly loads
• Analyzes energy and transmission alternatives to optimize profits and ensure delivery
• Interacts with the market participants to develop, negotiate, and execute opportunistic business transactions that create value for the company
• Evaluates the current value of thermal and storage resources relative to the market
• Evaluate market conditions and develop trading strategies to optimize the use of available resources
• Coordinate client and intra-TEA communications on power supply needs and transactions
• Monitors
• SCADA alarm system
• Power Biz
• Real-time system metering
• iCRS
• Coordinates
• Scheduling of energy and reserve transactions
• Tagging of energy…