Power purchase agreement
ENGIE’s Daronnat: pricing flexibility in the German battery market
Head of flexibility and structured origination in Germany discusses the role of FPAs and what risk teams must consider
Energy Risk Europe Leaders’ Network: geopolitical risk
Energy Risk’s European Leaders’ Network had its first meeting in November to discuss the risks posed to energy firms by recent geopolitical developments
Podcast: the difficulties of decarbonisation
What are energy firms doing to measure and mitigate transition risk?
Making technology count in a C/ETRM world
As businesses grow, so does their need for modern, agile and cost-effective commodity/energy trading risk management (C/ETRM) solutions. Pioneer Solutions explores how its next-generation, highly configurable C/ETRM systems take advantage of the latest…
Electricity house of the year: Engie
Energy Risk Awards 2018: For global energy firm focus is on anticipating client expectations, not just market trends
The renewable future
The shift to solar and wind is creating new challenges
European renewables turn to corporates as states retreat
Can corporate PPAs help smooth European power market transformation?
Deal of the year: Morgan Stanley
Deal enables Gulf Power to be first utility in Florida to buy wind power
Renewables subsidy shift brings opportunity for energy firms
Germany began encouraging renewable generators to directly market their own production in 2012, reflecting a trend of giving renewables greater exposure to wholesale markets across Europe. That could spell an opportunity for more well-established energy…
Renewable PPAs find favour among corporates
A small but growing number of companies are using renewable energy power purchase agreements to lock in cheap forward electricity prices. But it may take some time before going green becomes a sound risk management strategy for all firms, writes…
Q&A: Gary Demasi, director of global infrastructure, Google
As Google seeks to satisfy its enormous power needs from renewable sources, it has been on a shopping spree to buy green energy in the wholesale market. Gary Demasi, who oversees the firm's energy procurement, speaks to Alexander Osipovich about the deals
Enterprise-wide risk management: The power of cashflow-based metrics
The risks faced by energy/commodity firms need to be assessed via metrics that allow for longer-term outlooks and incorporate risks from asset-backed trading. In the second article in this series, Chris Strickland discusses the range of such metrics…