About us
The trade specialists
Vattenfall's Markets Division brings together all activities related to energy trading, procurement, and asset optimisation. Vattenfall Energy Trading is the central trading organisation. As one of the leading energy trading companies in Europe, we offer our customers a wide range of products and services, market access, and professional advice.
Main task and responsibility
The key tasks of the approximately 500 employees in Markets include optimizing and safeguarding Vattenfall's renewables such as wind farms, solar plants, hydropower plants and other generation assets, as well as our customers' portfolios along the entire value chain.
We help industrial customers and municipal utilities to set up their energy needs in a more climate-efficient way. We bundle and optimize our customers' wind and solar power, as well as that from our own wind farms, and market these volumes. We then supply the green electricity to industrial customers in various sectors, for example, who can reduce their CO2 footprint in this way.
We use our customers' battery storage systems on the balancing energy market, helping the grid operator to balance out electricity fluctuations. We procure fuel, biomass and climate certificates for Vattenfall and customers. We also provide access to all major energy trading markets. Companies without their own market access can procure electricity or gas through us.
Our main locations are Hamburg and Stockholm, and we also have offices in Amsterdam, London and Copenhagen - and are active throughout Europe.
Our focus areas at a glance
- Direct marketing and optimization of electricity from wind and solar plants from our own portfolio as well as on behalf of customers
- Green power supply to industrial customers via Green Corporate PPAs
- Green power supply to industrial customers, municipal utilities, redistributors, trading partners
- Electricity and gas sales for business customers such as large industrial companies or municipal utilities, e.g. long-term electricity supply contracts, portfolio management
- Market access to all key energy markets in Europe, for our customers and Vattenfall
- Optimisation and risk management of our customers' portfolios
- Plant optimisation, deployment and capacity planning of Vattenfall's generation assets in Germany, the UK and the Netherlands
- Procurement of commodities such as gas, coal and biomass as well as climate certificates
- Balancing group and schedule management
Part of the financially strong Vattenfall Group
Vattenfall Energy Trading is part of the Vattenfall Group, which is wholly owned by the Swedish state and therefore has a good credit rating.
With around 20,000 employees, Vattenfall operates primarily in Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, the UK and Finland. As a leading European energy service provider, we are aware of our responsibility to people and the environment. We consistently pursue our central goal: to help our customers make their lives increasingly climate-friendly. Within a generation, we want to achieve an energy supply without fossil sources. Together with partners, we are additionally striving to electrify industrial manufacturing processes, transportation and other areas as well.