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Shahrokh FARZAMBEHBOUDI
Senior Energy Trader | Gas & Power Markets Expert Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Mobile No.: +31 6 51 47 61 00
E-Mail (Main): shahrokh@farzambehboudi.com Website (Main): https://shahrokh.farzambehboudi.com |
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Work Background
Senior Commercial Trader
& Analyst
TAQA Energy B.V. (Gas Storage Bergermeer), Alkmaar, NETHERLANDS
(Sep 2024 – Present)
· Trading natural gas across the prompt and forward curves, optimizing filling strategies.
· Executing trades across the entire prompt market on TTF (NH, WD, DA, WEnd, etc.) to manage operational imbalances and commercial constraints and optimum.
· Handling customer requests while ensuring compliance with the contractual and physical constraints of Gas Storage Bergermeer.
· Developing scripts for forecasting storage customer usage and generating insightful BI reports.
· Overseeing commercial dispatching and operational steering of Gas Storage Bergermeer.
· Leading the automation project for capacity booking on the Prisma Capacity platform (Booking long term and short term capacities with Gas TSOs)
· Serving as the first point of contact for ad-hoc operational inquiries and issue resolution.
Senior Intraday Energy Trader, Full-Time
PZEM Energy Company B.V. (EP Commodities B.V.), Middelburg, NETHERLANDS
(Nov 2023 – Aug 2024)
· Leading and onboarding Power Algorithmic Trading project within Company.
· Defining strategies for Algos and tuning them.
· Collaborating with shift traders at the power desk to take speculative positions on the day-ahead market with strategies targeting the intraday and balancing markets.
· Developing strategies for asset-backed intraday trading and optimization of a 2.5GWh Gas Power Plant fleet and 1GWh Renewable Portfolio, emphasizing synergies across the entire portfolio
· In close collaboration with Asset Optimization for assessing discount/premiums for pricing of Dutch TSO ancillary services capacity auction.
· Collaborating with Asset Optimization for creating flex on assets for intraday options.
Shift Energy Trader, Full-Time
PZEM Energy Company B.V. (EP Commodities B.V.), Middelburg, NETHERLANDS
(Mar 2022 – Nov 2023)
Power:
· Optimizing Gas Power Plant assets based on the latest updated Marginal Cost in Intraday and Balancing Markets. (~ 2.5GWh Fleet)
· Regulating/Trading Gas Power Plants' operation based on Marginal Cost and live Balancing Market prices.
· Regularly updating aFRR (Ancillary market products) bids for Dutch TenneT network based on market conditions.
· Continuously assessing Spark Spread and monitoring lively WD/DA Fuel costs vs. Intraday Power and Balancing market counter opportunities.
· Balanced Renewable Generation fleet including Offshore Wind Parks based on weather forecast runs. (~ 1GWh Portfolio)
· Taking outright/speculative positions on Day Ahead Markets vs. Intraday Markets vs. Imbalance Markets based on weather runs uncertainty, merit order, hub-to-hub analysis, published outages, and other speculations.
Gas:
· Managing short-term physical gas supply for Gas Fired Power on TTF benchmark (for 2.5GWh Gas Power Plant)
· Conducting time spread trading and optimization on Gas Storage Asset’s under TTF benchmark.
· Optimizing Fast Cycle Gas Storage flexibility in WD contracts and WD/DA spreads.
· Conducting location spread trading and optimization of location contracts (mainly TTF/ZTP)
· Participating in GTS (Gasunie) NextHour and WD Balancing actions according to portfolio position.
Spot Power Trader, Full-Time
Ayen Energy Trading, Tirana, ALBANIA
(Jul 2019 – Feb 2022)
Intraday Trading:
· Led and expanded IDM Trading in HUPX (HU), IBEX (BG), and CEE/SEE Markets.
· Significantly improved the company’s rank in HUPX Intraday Market.
· Formulated strategies based on SIDC region analysis.
· Optimized generation assets considering unit constraints, including hydro power plants.
Day Ahead Asset Optimization:
· Developed trading strategies for CEE/SEE region markets.
· Planned and dispatched hydro power plants based on performance analysis.
· Maximized profit of dispatchable power assets with diverse market products.
· Analyzed weather forecasts for non-dispatchable hydro plants.
· Managed generation scheduling and participation in explicit auctions.
· Monitored market dynamics and developed automated submission procedures.
Electrical Engineering Specialist, Full-Time
Turang Transit Taşımacılık A.Ş., ASB GROUP, Istanbul, TURKEY
(Mar 2015 – Jun 2019)
- Worked on the Iran-Turkey-Europe Natural Gas Pipeline Project, focusing on HRSG design and high voltage transmission.
- Involved in procurement and financial evaluation of renewable energy projects.