17 people changes and job upgrades in renewable energy. Selected and verifed by us.

New moves in the world of renewables include Drax Group welcoming Callum O'Reilly, CAIA as its Renewable Strategic Originator, managing origination and deal structuring for corporate PPA transactions. Callum joins from an energy origination role with the Greece-based metals, mining, and energy conglomerate, Mytilineos.

Clarisse Martin takes on the role of Green Portfolio Manager at Alpiq, based in Lausanne. During nearly a decade at Romande Energie, Clarisse had worked in both Senior Analyst and Portfolio Manager roles. Before that, she gained experience at Cargill, working as a Trader and Market Risk Analyst in Geneva.

Engie’s team in the UK advances Joseph Maycock to PPA Operations Director after over 16 years with the company. The positions he’s filled over that time have ranged from negotiator and accounts manager to taking the lead on electricity demand forecasting, retail analysis, pricing and energy costing.

We can report that Henning Forche has stepped into the role of Lead Renewables Originator at Vattenfall in Hamburg. Bringing over 12 years of experience from Statkraft, where his most recent role was Head of Business Development Market Access Germany, Henning has led market access strategies for renewables, batteries, and peer-to-peer power deliveries. Earlier, he spent seven years at BKW, focusing on the procurement and marketing of renewable energy in Switzerland.

In Sweden, Milan M. joins Ethora Renewables as Head of Environmental Trading after several years at STX Group, where roles included Senior Originator and Sales Trader in environmental commodities.

When Bianca Sarbu joined BKW in Bern, her role in portfolio management covered energy clients (power, gas, EUA, GoO). Almost eight years later Bianca is now Head of Business Unit - Trading & Origination, having completed two years heading commodities and renewables origination department. Previously at BKW she’s been an origination project leader for the Swiss gas market and for the company’s gas storage portfolio in central and western Europe.

Norlys Energy Trading hires Eddie Weissenborn as Lead Originator, New Markets with a view to developing its renewable energy portfolio first in the German market and then expanding wider in Europe.? Eddie’s background includes senior roles in offshore wind and battery storage business development at ? Energi, as well as positions with Danske Commodities and Statkraft.

Renewable energy platform Enlight is based in Tel Aviv but chooses Marta Fritz in Oslo for its new PPA Origination Manager. Marta’s most recent slot has been in commercial partnership and development with GE Renewable Energy, where she’d previously handled PPA origination in Europe and sub-Saharan Africa.

Since his graduation in banking and finance in 2019 Tom Wright has worked in the Nyon area of Switzerland as an LNG broker for SCB Group and in Amsterdam as an originator for STX. New job, new location for Tom in mid-2024: he arrives in London to be Commercial Structurer for EnBW.

Creating solutions to match renewable power production with offtakers - that’s the focus of the new job for Mathilde Lykke Saaby at Danske Commodities. She’s been recruited as Lead Originator, after her previous experience within trading and revenue in ?rsted heading a team that created revenue strategies for assets and carried out market development.

Engie appoints Sam R. as Power and Renewables Originator based in its UK office. Sam previously spent over four years with BP, most recently as a power origination analyst.

Hats off to Düsseldorf resident Annkathrin Rabe . Statkraft promotes Annkathrin from senior originator in green power to Head of German Downstream Origination. Until 2020 she was at Innogy SE, initially in market analysis and latterly managing origination and B2B sales for PPA contracts.

Leo Figueira had been in Delaware, Florida and New York before Australian financial risk management assignments in Sydney with accountants KPMG and Hydro Tasmania in Hobart. Although London (InterGen) and Sydney (Infigen Energy) intervened, Leo was back in Hobart by 2022 to be senior director in structuring and commercial across the APAC region for Canadian Solar / Recurrent Energy.? This year he’s promoted by the group to Senior Director, Energy & Asset Management & Growth (APAC).

Vattenfall hires Johannes Groos from a position in project management at Abo Wind. Johannes is named Renewables Originator, 10 years after he was a junior originator with the energy and infrastructure business unit of Hamburg Commercial Bank. Between 2014 and 2017 he had also worked at Commerzbank in Hamburg on financing of renewable energy projects.

Another Hamburg switch to note sees Kay Paulsen cross town to become Asset Manager at renewables investment group CEE, especially covering wind and solar projects. This echoes his previous VP slot with Hamburg-based Aquila Capital that supported wind assets (in Germany, Finland, Norway, Sweden and UK) and solar (Germany and France). Kay had worked on financial modelling of projects in renewable energy while in early training with commercial bank Nord/LB in London.

Next we head to Wiesbaden as Stephan Schnorr arrives to be PPA Structuring Manager for Abo Wind, shortly before the enterprise’s rebrand as Abo Energy to reflect a change in its legal status from stock corporation to partnership limited by shares. Stephan’s track record to date shows mainly portfolio management roles, at the likes of Dong Energy, Trianel and Bay Wa r.e. Clean Energy Sourcing - where he became an originator.

Finally this time, we can report that Philipp K?hler in Düsseldorf is onboarded at Our New Energy as Lead Corporate PPA Expert. Philipp was with Uniper Energy Sales for eight years, latterly being its functional head of green power development. He’d previously worked for 8 years in different positions at E.ON in Germany.

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