Buy, Optimize, Supply: Power Trading by TotalEnergies
Power trading provides marketing and sourcing solutions based on direct access to organized markets.
It enables efficient value creation from electricity production — particularly from renewable sources — for the benefit of wholesale market clients.
Power trading at the heart of new electrical balances
The electricity market is undergoing a rapid transformation, driven by the combined effects of the growth of renewable energies, evolving regulations and the digitalization of trading activities.
- Solar and wind generation are expanding significantly, with new capacities planned across Europe.
- Prices are becoming more volatile, with fluctuations occurring as frequently as every 15 minutes and significant spreads between zones, depending on local grid constraints.
- New structured contracts linked to renewable energies are emerging: for example, Contracts for Difference (CfDs) guarantee a minimum price to producers, while Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) commit buyers to consume electricity in line with the actual production profile.
These mechanisms, combined with Guarantees of Origin, require finer management of volume, profile, and price risks — but they also enhance the traceability of green electricity.
An integrated player at the crossroads of energies and markets
For TotalEnergies, power trading is part of an integrated approach that connects directly with renewable generation, flexible gas-fired power plants, battery assets, and customer needs.
Our teams operate from three main hubs — Geneva, Houston, and Singapore — as well as local branches, ensuring 24/7 coverage of client relations and activity on spot and intraday markets.
Several levers reinforce our agility:
- 10 GW of flexible assets optimized in real time, including combined-cycle gas turbine (CCGT) plants, hydropower, batteries and demand-response contracts.
- An integrated gas–power value chain enabling multi-energy solutions and full coverage of the spark spread (the margin between gas and electricity prices).
- Strong expertise in financial structuring (PPAs, CfDs, batteries) tailored to the specific needs of each producer and client.
- Advanced forecasting and automated execution models, allowing real-time action.
- A team of experts in market analysis, data science, machine learning, and meteorology providing trading desks with analytical and decision-support tools to better anticipate and manage risk.
This integrated organization covers the entire electricity value chain. It enables us to optimize every megawatt-hour, support the growth of renewables and ensure reliable supply for our counterparties.
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Supporting renewable integration and enabling the energy transition
Power trading balances its generation sourcing and customer supply portfolios through flexible assets and wholesale market operations.
It facilitates the integration of renewable energies — inherently more variable — and contributes to overall grid stability.
Our teams act on several levels:
- integrating solar, wind, and hydropower generation into markets through tailored hedging, optimization, and balancing services,
- offering long-term contracts (PPAs) to provide industrial and commercial clients with low-carbon electricity at fixed or structured prices,
- optimizing the value of every megawatt-hour, including intermittent production, by combining forecasting, flexibility and active participation in spot markets,
- ensuring environmental traceability through Guarantees of Origin certificates.
By combining renewable generation with flexible assets (batteries, CCGTs), we help deliver low-carbon electricity that is continuously available — Clean Firm Power.
Power trading: people at the heart of market flows
Power trading brings together roles at the crossroads of markets, data, physical assets, and contracts.
Each profile contributes to maximizing the value of electricity, balancing the system and supporting decarbonization.
In an environment where signals evolve at high speed — weather, prices, intermittent generation, grid constraints — teams demonstrate responsiveness, precision, and collective intelligence.
