Meteorologist on a Trading Floor

With the rise of wind farms and solar panels, the price of energy is increasingly dependent on the weather – and meteorologists become increasingly important for energy trading companies. In this episode, Danske Commodities’ Head of Meteorology Kim Bentzen talks about what it’s like to work as a meteorologist on a trading floor, how he and his colleagues work closely together with our traders in mapping out our trading strategies – and how he was hired as a bit of an experiment, when he started at Danske Commodities.

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In ‘Behind the screens’, the in-house experts of energy trading company Danske Commodities invite you onto the trading floor for an inside look into the world of energy trading. We’ll tackle questions like what’s it like to work as an energy trader? How will the most important megatrends shape the energy markets of tomorrow? And what is a meteorologist doing on a trading floor?