Jens Lühning

Allrounder with 15+years of experience in the energy business | Focus on energy markets and surrounding functions (Trading, Analytics, Risk, Portfoliomanagement, Sales, Finance & IT) | Fighting climate change since 1994

Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

About

Industrial Engineer | Allrounder with 15+years of experience in the energy business | Focus on energy markets and surrounding functions (Trading, Analytics, Risk, Portfoliomanagement, Sales, Finance and IT) | Have traded Power, Natgas and Emissions | Motivation to contribute to the energy transition and tackling climate change

Experience

  • Energy and Flexibility Manager at ESFORIN SE
    Jul 2024 - Present · 2 yrs

    Managing flexibility for utility & industrial assets across Europe. Developing models and automated trading strategies in short-term power markets to optimize generation and consumption.

  • Carbon Trader at thyssenkrupp Materials Trading GmbH
    Jan 2023 - Jan 2024 · 1 yr 1 mo

    - Building the voluntary carbon trading desk as a service for tk and external customers; - Including contractual framework, onboarding of suppliers and registries, marketing & sales, procurement of carbon credits, development of processes - Networking and representation of tk within the carbon trading ecosystem

  • Analyst at Uniper
    2021 - Jan 2023 · 2 yrs 1 mo

    - Creating intelligence for natgas sales by analysis of sales data; - Supporting strategic decision taking of management on several fields of interest - contributing on success of Long Term Gas Supply Contracts, f.e. coordinating internal efforts and external legal advisors; - Mining and structuring of data from external, unstructured sources with python; visual analysis with tableau and MS Power BI, deriving and developing steering impulses and use-cases from data;

  • Portfolio Optimierung at Quantum GmbH
    2020 - 2021 · 1 yr

    - Power trading in German Intraday and Day-Ahead market on PnL basis; - Optimizing the Power Portfolio´s cost of balancing power - Algotrading; Development and implementation of strategies; monitoring and evaluation of results - dispatching; operational responsibility for daily power and gas processes - flexibility marketing; Evaluation and conceptualization of potential projects - Natgas trading on German EEX Day-Ahead and Within-Day markets - Monitoring and evaluation of energy markets

  • Analyst at Stadtwerke Düsseldorf – unser Unternehmen
    2018 - 2019 · 1 yr

    - Project evaluation, analysis and cash-flow modeling in the areas of hydrogen, battery storage, solar thermal energy; - Longterm powerplant optimization, power marketing, hedging, reporting; Especially of large CHP Plant - Data processing, data validation, data management, programming of small applications