Power Trader

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.

Are you energized by fast-moving markets and complex decision-making? As a Power Trader at TEA, you’ll play a critical role in managing and optimizing client generation and load portfolios across bilateral and/or RTO markets. This is a high-impact role where strategy meets execution—you’ll develop short-term trading strategies, make real-time economic decisions, and collaborate closely with clients and internal teams to drive value, reduce risk, and lower power costs.

If you thrive in dynamic environments, enjoy balancing analytics with market instincts, and want your work to directly impact client outcomes, this role is for you.

Client Resource Management/Optimization:

• Ensures accurate submission of client load and assets.
• Develops and maintains strong working relationships with appropriate staff at Clients.
• Works with clients to define portfolio positions and develops short-term risk management strategies (physical and financial) to increase margin and lower power costs, while minimizing risk.
• Coordinates with all necessary internal staff to bridge the gap between the longer-term strategies and the shorter-term trading functions.
• Maintains current knowledge of TEA’s client resource mix, including understanding of congestion impacts.
• Reviews and participates in the decision-making process with Analytics on client congestion hedging strategies.
• Accurately performs and records all trading functions for clients using trading tools, including (but not limited to) generation, load, purchases, sales, tags, deal information into the portals, and deal capture system.

• Obtains market discoveries to broaden our market knowledge and increase trading opportunities.
• Ensures compliance with all applicable FERC orders, NERC, and other applicable reliability standards, and transmission tariffs and business practices.
• Maintains current knowledge of markets (RTO and/or Bilateral) to include market business practice, tariff, and other market related information.
• Develops strong working knowledge of market protocols and operations and takes advantage of ongoing learning opportunities.
• Participates in Market related meetings.
• Responsible for ensuring applications are up to date with market changes, analyzing impacts to TEA and clients of market changes, and disseminating all market notifications (including Tariff/BPM changes) for their respective markets.
• Overnight(s) travel required attending industry functions, training seminars as well as visits to Members and Partners, as needed.
• Works weekends/holiday as the schedule requires.
• Ability to temporarily relocate out of the local area in times of natural disasters or for other business continuity reasons.

• Understands impacts of industry trends/technological change and leads clients and TEA adapt and capture value.
• Gains and maintains proficiency with the analytical tools to assess the effectiveness of strategies.
• Provides testing of new tools as TEA moves into new markets, as markets evolve, and as new Partners are added.
• Consistently looks for new ways to use tools to improve workflow and output.
• Uses various vendor and proprietary tools to conduct analysis including, but not limited to, Power Optix, Yes Energy, Genscape, WSI, web Trader, etc.

• Trains new staff as well as other team members, including but not limited to Energy Schedulers, Hourly Traders, Portfolio Managers, and Members/Partners.
• Is a resource on RTO/Bilateral market rules for TEA and Members/Partners.
• Attends relevant Market and Technology training sessions as available in person and/or online.