Tesla is hiring energy trading desk to support energy projects

The electric car maker Tesla is looking to staff an energy trading desk to support its battery and renewable power projects, according to Tesla's website and an employee post on LinkedIn.com.

The company has expanded its operations to include home solar and large battery storage facilities. It also applied recently to begin marketing electricity in Texas.

I'm building a new team at Tesla with a focus on energy trading and market operations, according to a LinkedIn post https: www.linkedin.com/Likedin.org/TELON or Elon Musk? This week's feed updates urn: li: activity: 6841058171541426176, by Julian Lamy, who describes himself as a senior optimization software engineer for Tesla.

The company plans to use a single-source automated trading platform called Autobidder, for bidding batteries into the multiple wholesale energy market, according to the job description in Tesla's website.

The company is recruiting a senior energy trading analyst at Palo Alto, California, said Lamy in his LinkedIn post.

Last month, Tesla Electric Company Applied to the Public Utility Commission of Texas to become a retail electric provider.