Thomas Deetjen
Senior Commercial Analyst at RWE
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolThomas Deetjen is a research-driven energy systems analyst with over a decade of experience building custom modeling tools to evaluate the economic, energetic, and environmental trade-offs of wind, solar, storage, electrification, and hydrogen technologies. Currently a Senior Commercial Analyst at RWE in Austin, he combines power-market expertise in ERCOT and CAISO with a practical battery optimization model used to forecast project revenue. His background spans academia and consulting—leading hydrogen roadmap and decarbonization modeling at UT Austin and developing open-source emissions and dispatch tools at Carnegie Mellon—giving him fluency across data, simulation, and policy-relevant questions. Thomas is actively integrating full-stack skills (Python analysis, emerging SQL and JavaScript work) to make technical results more accessible and operational. He also authors productivity books for early-career researchers, reflecting a commitment to clear technical communication and capacity building. That blend of hands-on engineering, market-facing commercial analysis, and tool development makes him adept at turning complex energy research into actionable investment and policy insights.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mechanical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mechanical Engineering at The University of Texas at AustinBS, Mechanical Engineering, BS, Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University
German
Github Skills (13)
dispatch8
carbon-emissions8
sector8
calculation7
climate-change7
modeling6
traits5
risk-assessment5
electricity5
climate-science5
energy5
renewable-energy5
sustainability4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
tdeetjen/simple_dispatch
Aug 2018 - Sep 2021
Simple Dispatch method for modeling the U.S. power sector and simulating marginal emissions factors (MEFs)
Contributions:22 commits, 1 PR, 19 pushes in 3 years 1 month
dispatchsectormarginalmethodemissions
tdeetjen/carbon_index_test
Dec 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:34 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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