Andrew Hines Email & Phone Number

Brisbane City, Qld, Au

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Member of the Forward Markets Trading Team

Brisbane, Australia

Member of the wholesale trading team, in ERM Business EnergyTrading in both OTC and SFE markets to manage electricity and emissions trading positions for the Retail group and to optimise profitsResponsible for both the development and outworking of hedging and trading strategiesNegotiation of ISDAs and other wholesale market counterparty agreementsMonitor price books for Retail Operations to ensure optimisation of customer win rates and risk management metricsLiaise with market brokers to obtain market information.Assisting the sales team to close deals by undertaking customer specific analysis and participating in customer meetings

Brisbane, Australia

Member of the wholesale trading team, in ERM Business EnergyTrading in both OTC and SFE to manage electricity and green positions for the Retail groupProviding transfer pricing for electricity and green products both sourced from internal generation and wholesale markets.Analyse fundamental and technical information that relate to the electricity and green portfolios, recommending hedging and trading strategies.Liaise with market brokers to obtain market information.Manage wholesale/retail position volume and risk limits

Brisbane, Australia

Part of the Business Development and Planning teamLong-term pool price forecasting, supply-demand analysis and generation sufficiency.Levelised cost modeling of proposed power station development projects.Monthly high-level reporting of price and demand trends in the NEM and WEM.Market data analysis in preparation of annual Planning Options report.Preparation of board strategy papers; market development analysis; Financial modeling and pricing proposals for developments

Part of the Operations division, in charge of operations and energy trading for the Braemar 2 Power station (3 x 150 MW OCGTs), in the National Electricity Market (NEM), and the NewGen Kwinana (320 MW CCGT) and Neerabup (2 x 150 MW OCGT) power stations, in the West Australian Wholesale Electricity Market (WEM).Primarily responsible for monthly reporting of trading financials, plant availability statistics and greenhouse gas emissions, including the development and maintenance of spreadsheet tools and database tables.Short- and medium-term pool price modeling and power station operations optimization models for revenue forecasts and planning of outages.Preparation of required data for National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting submission.Complete development, implementation and handover of a new trading settlements system, for producing financial results from raw market data.Creation annual budget spreadsheets, future cash flow models and DSCR calculation spreadsheetsStrategies for managing plant outages, including supply of energy to cover off-takes and management of gas supply and monetisation of surplus gas transport capacity.Negotiation with counterparties for short-term energy and gas purchase/sale/transport arrangements and composition of corresponding term-sheets.Annual National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting; data collection, analysis and submission.Point person for ad hoc analysis, reporting on exceptional pricing or power station events, development of trading tools and communication between power station operations and commercial team.Day-to-Day management of the Spot Trading team.

Funded by Pacific Institute of Theoretical Physics and Pacific Institute for Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship.Independent research which lead to discoveries in physical and complex systems.An approach to quantum computing using quantum random walks:Utilised graph theory and Markov processes in modeling dynamics, Matrix analysis and linear algebra, analytical, and numerically using Matlab and Mathematica.Use of stochastic calculus in approximate descriptions of complicated models.Applied mathematical methods for solution and approximation of complex integrals. Stochastic methods for efficient computation of approximate solutions to matrix differential equations, numerical programming in Matlab and C++.Extensive professional travel throughout Canada, US and Europe, Chair of weekly research group meetings. Presented a series of 6, two-hour lectures, Introduction to Quantum Information Processing

Phd, Physics

Activities and Societies: Selection committee for a faculty position in theoretical physics, School of Physical Sciences, The University.

Bsc (Hons 1), Mathematics

Activities and Societies: Maths Students Society

Bsc, Mathematics And Physics

Activities and Societies: Maths Students Society Physics Students Association