About Northpool
Northpool is an energy trading company with a strong foundation in the physical power markets. With our proprietary trading strategies, we have been active in the Intraday and Day-Ahead markets for more than a decade.
With the use of data, robust weather models, predictive analyses and fundamental market knowledge, we calculate the amount of electricity required thereby, determining the price of electricity for every hour of the day. With the growth of intermittent renewable generation, energy trading plays a bigger role in maintaining the fine balance between supply and demand. Along with trading, Northpool also provides ancillary services to the system operators, to help balance the electricity grid.
In addition to short-term electricity, Northpool has expanded its trading operations in recent years to gas and emission markets. Our trading horizon has expanded to several months ahead in the physical and financial market.
We are a proprietary energy-trading company active in the European intraday and day-ahead power markets. Combining market expertise with data models, weather analytics, and predictive forecasting, we trade on our own account and help maintain balance in an increasingly renewable-driven grid. Beyond short-term power trading, we operate in cross-commodity markets, futures, and options, furthermore, we support system operators with ancillary services.
Energy trading
Energy trading is our core activity. In fast-moving power markets, we analyze supply and demand, price signals, and real-time data to make informed trades. Our blend of technology, automation, and market insight allows us to identify opportunities and contribute to a more efficient power system.
Predicting the unpredictable
With wind and solar driving greater volatility, forecasting uncertainty is essential. We use meteorological data, machine-learning models, and probabilistic forecasting to anticipate rapid shifts in production or demand—giving us an edge in markets where every minute and megawatt matter.
Transitioning to sustainable energy
Reducing price volatility
The stochastic nature of renewable power generation makes modern power systems more volatile and harder to predict and control. By combining data analysis, proprietary machine learning models, and deep meteorological expertise, Northpool can quickly anticipate shortages or oversupply on the power grid. This allows us to send price signals to the market early, reducing the need for last-minute volatile price corrections and remedial measures.
Fostering competition
Northpool uses its in-house developed trading software to be able to be continuously active in commodity markets all over Europe. A high degree of automation, combined with over a decade of trading experience and data collection, allows us to competitively quote prices that we model to reflect the fundamental situation on the power grid. This increases competition in the market.
Ensuring market efficiency
Having access to markets all over Europe over various time horizons. Northpool is able to increase the efficiency of the overall power system by transporting power across time and place from periods and places of abundance to periods and places of scarcity. Improving the overall efficiency of the power system.
Our core values
Ambition
At Northpool, we believe that anything worth doing is worth doing well. Whether it’s making trading decisions, setting up new databases, building predictive models, or maintaining existing systems, we strive to do it to the highest standard. That’s why we hire bright, inventive, and curious people, share our knowledge with them, and give them the freedom to excel in what they do best—right from the start.
Innovation
Northpool processes billions of data points every day. To support this, we like to work with the most advanced tech stack and modeling techniques that exist within our field.
We have a strong builder culture, and most of the software and models that we use on the training floors have been developed in-house.
Collaboration
At Northpool, we believe that the best results come from working together. Our teams collaborate closely across departments, combining expertise and perspectives to solve complex challenges.
We actively share knowledge, encourage curiosity, and support each other’s growth—creating an environment where ideas can be explored and improved collectively.
Our culture is built on performance, ownership, and continuous improvement.
Traders, analysts, and technologists work closely together — sharing insights, challenging assumptions, and making decisions in real time. We operate in a fast-moving market, where speed and precision matter. That means high expectations, but also real responsibility from day one. You’ll be supported by a team that values learning, direct feedback, and getting better every day.
Careers at Northpool