PowerBot Talks S01E06 - Gavin Bell, CEO at Optimeering

In this very special episode, Helmut talks to Roland Peetz, SVP for Energy Software at Volue. As many of you know, Roland is one of the people that build Likron, which became the Volue Algo Trader Power a couple of years ago. Roland and the team at Likron pioneered automated short-term power trading - today he shares his story! At Volue, Roland is now responsible for a broad energy software portfolio — from algo trading and auction market tools to ancillary market solutions like Ancitra, as well as scheduling and nomination. A key focus: combining asset and portfolio optimization with trading, helping customers unlock value, increase profits, and reduce risk.

In this episode, Helmut talks to Carina Leinfellner, Head of Portfolio Management at ÖBB, about the unique 16.7 Hz railway power grid in Central Europe and ÖBB’s role in energy supply. They discuss challenges in balancing flexibility, renewable expansion, and regulation, as well as the future of railway electrification.

In this episode Maximilian Kiessler sits down with Daniele Spinella of PwC Germany to discuss all things compliance in algorithmic short-term energy trading and what the new requirements means for your internal control and governance system.

In this episode Helmut talks Asbjørn, an industry veteran in the ETRM space who co-founded Previse Systems with a team of former ex-colleagues in 2019 to build the Coral ETRM. Tune in for a deep dive into the ETRM space.

In this episode, Helmut chats with Cyriel de Jong from KYOS, a Dutch company renowned for its expertise in energy market analytics. Many listeners might recognize KYOS for its gas option pricing solutions, price curves, and fundamental market modelling. In recent years, KYOS has also expanded into the battery sector, offering optimization tools to benchmark grid-scale batteries.

In this conversation with Helmut, Casper Theilgaard Skov shares the story of Energy Market Partners before Helmut and Casper do a deep dive on US power markets and shares his insights from his visit at the US nodal conference.

In this episode, Helmut talks to Casper Sønderby, Co-Founder at Copenhagen-based Twig Energy. Before co-founding Twig, Casper spent some time at Google to work on AI-based weather forecasting right after the machine learning revolution took off around a decade ago. Together with his brother, who has a similar background, they founded a prop trading firm that is now making its way into asset optimization.

In this episode our Maximilian Kiessler talks to Luisa von Lonski, the Head of Short Term Trading and Operations at Syneco. Luisa started her career in Hamburg working on VPP software before spending a couple of years at Elli, the Volkswagen subsidiary tasked with flexibility management and smart charging. At Elli she and the team successfully launched their flexibility trading on EPEX SPOT. More than a year ago she left the startup world to transform and digitalize the short-term trading business of established energy trading company Syneco Trading GmbH and Max and Luisa are reflecting on this journey and the challenges.

In this episode of PowerBot Talks, Helmut interviews Gavin Bell, CEO and Co-Founder of Optimeering, discussing the company's vision for optimizing the renewable power sector through advanced imbalance price forecasting and AI. Gavin shares his background in the power industry, the evolution of Optimeering from a consulting company to a SaaS provider, and the challenges and opportunities within the Nordic power market. The conversation also touches on the intersection of power and aquaculture and the affiliated company Optimeering Aqua which optimizes fish farms.

In this episode, Helmut talks to Hubert Penn, CCO at Dexter Energy. Hubert talks about his journey from being an aerospace engineer to co-founding Dexter, which specializes in imbalance price forecasting and trade optimization to help renewable producers.