Tori Weston

Delivering transaction support and commercial advisory across the Iberian power market, with a focus on solar and BESS assets. Developing and refining bankable power price forecasts to support investment decisions, financing processes and due diligence. Working closely with clients and internal teams to translate market fundamentals, policy developments and modelling outputs into actionable insights.

Acted as team AI champion, exploring agentic AI solutions to streamline and scale custom power market scenario development. Built weather sensitivity overlays to enhance power price forecasts, leveraging historical weather and generation datasets.

• Experienced user of the Aurora Software Suite: Origin, Chronos, Solaris, Amun, Lumus, and PowerBI, Advanced Excel skills • Strategic and Commercial Advice: Conducted a detailed financial evaluation of subsidy options for a 40 MW Biogas plant client. Determined that renewing its existing PPA offered the optimal long-term outcome • Market Modelling and Analysis: Programmed SQL to query Aurora’s data warehouse and subsequently built macros to run capacity procurement and strike price scenario forecasts for the RESS 5 Onshore Wind Auction • Policy and Regulatory Insights: Consulting project for the world’s largest cloud computing company. Independently identified a previously unknown gap in existing legislation which allowed for permissible expansion of client operations • Support for Transactions: Modelled Gross Margin forecast for 0.4hr BESS asset as part of a sell-side portfolio transaction • Research Publication Credit: Aurora Ireland (I-SEM) Power and Renewables Market Forecast - October 2025 Graduate Engagement Lead • Introduced bi-monthly knowledge-sharing sessions between graduate Analysts and Modellers, to improve understanding, cross-team collaboration and gain insight into the different roles • Responsible for organising Graduate Social Events, including wild swimming in Hinksey Lake, volleyball in University Parks, cheese tasting night, and book club. The role required budget responsibility, business sensitivity and inclusivity awareness

• Member of a Pan-European team assessing 15 tender bids for the £10 billion Marram Wind floating offshore wind project, and responsible for compiling a shortlist of vendors to present to the Project Board • Modelled key Capex and Opex differences between Tension Leg Platform and Semi-Submersible superstructures

• The only UK scholarship recipient. Designed and pitched a crewed mission to Mars to a committee of experts • Elected to lead a multinational research team analysing potential landing sites and mission logistics • Recruited by NASA to return as a Mentor, supporting student project development and presentations

Introduction to data analytics using large data sets to identify trends in the movement of the kidney during ultrasound scans. Analysed the scans and used the data to help code an AI, responsible for moving radioactive cancer treatment beams.