Electric utility
Podcast: the difficulties of decarbonisation
What are energy firms doing to measure and mitigate transition risk?
Slow reactions: the long road to smart demand response
Big data and analytics play an increasingly important role in balancing supply and demand as electricity grids around the world become more decentralized. Market participants are using these tools to improve forecasting and valuing capabilities, but…
Power traders slam Spain’s mooted plant closure rules
Tougher closure criteria would distort power prices and harm functioning of the market, say traders
How energy players are reaching the limits of hedging
Commodities firms face lasting changes in 2018
Utilities turn to big data to improve pricing models
Smart meters and time-of-use rates could dampen power market volatility and improve hedging
Uniper’s Khan on risk transformation and green energy
As energy markets change risk management should be at the heart of business strategy, says Novera Khan
Centrica loses chief risk officer
Olivier Herbelot set to join LNG firm Cheniere, sources say
Florida utilities’ $6bn hedging loss spurs public backlash
Firms face heat over out-of-the-money natural gas hedge transactions
CFTC no-action letter could end public utilities' hedging woes
CFTC exempts ‘utility operations-related swaps’ from contributing towards $25 million special entity threshold under Dodd-Frank
Stadtwerke München grapples with regulation and risk management
At Stadtwerke München, one of Germany’s largest municipal utilities, many of the issues facing risk management are different from those affecting big commercial energy firms. But concerns about the impact of financial regulation run just as high. Mark…
CFTC offers last-minute Dodd-Frank relief
Agency eases compliance burden for commodity and energy firms
Reshuffle at RWE Supply & Trading
The management board at RWE Supply & Trading is set to undergo a shake-up following the resignation of Peter Kreuzberg, head of trading.
Off-take deal targets West coast REC demand
Long-term REC off-take deal hedges West coast renewable energy compliance needs out to 2030; RECs demand expected to increase
Gas users lock in low long-term prices
Long-term price risk management deals are becoming more popular with utilities and regulators as a way to lock in low natural gas prices