Plamen Popov

Freelance consultant Electricity markets and Large interconnected power systems

Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

About

Experienced, organized and self-motivated; Excellent communication and networking skills; Successful work experience in multicultural environments; partnership network and negotiations; Leadership and coordination of technical projects; Experience in teaching and performing presentations; Languages: Bulgarian (mother tongue); English (proficient); Russian (Proficient); Serbo-Croatian (Independent); German (Basic); Hobbies: Hiking; Books; Philately Specialties: Electricity trading: OTC, PX, X-border; Portfolio; Risk assessments: Balancing power markets: Structure, Technical requirements; Rules; Settlement; Power markets analyses: Fundamentals; Regulatory issues; Simulations: Power system control: Large interconnected power systems; Frequency control and voltage profiles; Load-flow and operations stability; Control systems: Generator’s voltage and excitations systems; Joint V/Qcontrol. Power stations and substations design: HV, MV, LV.

Experience

  • Consulting in Electricity markets & Large interconnected power systems at Freelance
    Mar 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 5 mos

    Consulting and advisory services to utilities, investors and institutions on the power market regulatory framework. Conventional and renewable energy sources and storage facilities. Services to companies in Bulgaria, Moldova, South Africa, N. Macedonia, Italy, Albania, Germany , Hungary, Romania, Czechien in: • LT portfolio management. • Production hedging. • Renewables & BESS market integration, • LT PPA structuring and pricing, • Market analyses, simulations, and price forecast. • Market risk management and risk mitigation strategies. • Energy trading: Team, Procedures, Mandates, and Monitoring. • Trading Strategy. SWOT, Priorities, Roadmap. Implementation. • Capacity building and markets procedures training. • Route-to-Market: Market platforms for OTC, DA, ID. Balancing markets; Physical and financial markets. • Cross-border trading, • GOs

  • Power markets consultant at Correggio Consulting Ltd
    May 2023 - Apr 2025 · 2 yrs

    Electricity markets functioning, Trading and origination consultancy, Portfolio management, Market analyses and forecast, Risk assessment and risk mitigation strategies. Renewables and batteries integration, Balancing and system services. Projects: - Capacity building and power trading operations rulebook for Energocom, Moldova; - Electricity trading business plan from A to Z for a new market player in Slovakia; - Electricity trading strategy for power generation company in Albania; - Electricity market reform and capacity building in Azerbaijan. - Electricity market data collection and processing for market monitoring in Ukraine.

  • Statkraft (16 yrs 2 mos)
    • Head of Portfolio Management Central & South East Europe at Statkraft
      Jul 2014 - Mar 2022 · 7 yrs 9 mos

    • Managing Director
      Feb 2006 - Mar 2019 · 13 yrs 2 mos

  • Head of Electricity Market Operator Division at NEK, Bulgaria
    Jul 2001 - Jan 2006 · 4 yrs 7 mos

  • Senior expert System stability analysis at National Electricity Company EAD (NEK EAD)
    Jul 1995 - Jul 2001 · 6 yrs 1 mo