Yes. The SIGMA Forum in the US, it’s a group of science fiction authors. They advise the Department of Homeland Security on future risks. I know for energy, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in the US hosted a 'Visioning Energy' workshop. They paired sci-fi authors with researchers to write scenarios about a clean-energy future. And in China, the government heavily promotes the 'Ecological Civilization' narrative. And in this one Liu Cixin (The Wandering Earth) has analyzed insights into Chinese energy futurism

For me: Price Forecasting much of the time.. For different markets

Welcome dear Ryan. Yes, your background sounds well suited to what we cover here , energy economics, data science, and applied ML.

As colleagues mentioned above , here are the main open/public sources for TTF (Title Transfer Facility) futures positioning: EEX CoT, ICE Endex CoT, and ESMA CODER58 weekly position reports. They show aggregated longs/shorts (not who exactly is long/short): https://www.eex.com/en/trading-resources/regulatory-services/mifid-ii/mifir/mifid-ii/mifir-reporting https://www.ice.com/futures-europe/mifidii https://www.meff.es/ing/Commodities-Derivatives/Weekly-Positions-Report

@Luis G Yes and software engineering is needed in implementation consulting. With technical/specialist consulting the code is a tool to generate insights, where you build a model to answer a question like "where should we site this wind farm?" "What's the optimal battery size?". And so your deliverable is simply the insight/recommendation, not the code. The client cares about the answer, not the software. You're hired for domain expertise e.g. because you have understanding of energy markets, etc. The implementation consulting (where you wrote Accenture, Deloitte), your code is the deliverable , and so you build software that the client will use every day like a trading platform, or a forecasting dashboard . So, the code is handed over to client's IT team so they run it . So the client cares about the software working reliably. You're hired for software engineering skills . So with technical consulting they need an analyst/scientist who can code. They produce insights. And with implementation consulting , they need a software engineer .They produce code products.