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Energy Risk Europe Leaders’ Network: the challenge of unpredictability
The European Leaders’ Network, sponsored by Engie, convened in London on June 29, 2026, and focused on the impact of geopolitical tension, price volatility and policy uncertainty on European energy markets.
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
Interest in battery and flexibility soars in European energy markets
Energy traders are structuring bespoke contracts around Bess and flexibility that facilitate new ways of managing and sharing risk in this nascent market
Axpo interview: the rise of flexibility contracts in European power
Axpo’s Domenico Franceschino talks to Energy Risk about flexibility contracts, battery optimisation and the role of risk management in valuing these bespoke products
US power markets grapple with surging AI demand
Through rising demand and increased market participation, technology giants are transforming US power markets
CRO interview: Shawnie McBride
NRG’s chief risk officer Shawnie McBride discusses the challenges of increasingly interconnected risks, fostering a risk culture and her most useful working habits
Interview: Nodal Exchange’s Paul Cusenza
The fundamentals driving electricity prices, growing confidence in state-driven environmental programmes and Nodal’s share of the US zonal power markets
How quants shaped the modern energy markets
The business models of today’s utility firms are built on quantitative analysis, but the introduction of these techniques in the 1990s was far from smooth
Podcast: the difficulties of decarbonisation
What are energy firms doing to measure and mitigate transition risk?
Power surge: the value of investing in renewables
Energy market expert investigates ways to forecast future power prices and capture rates in order to value renewables PPAs
Power surge: the evolution of PPAs
In the first of a series analysing the financial risks of renewable energy, Cyriel de Jong looks at key developments in the power purchase agreements market
Derivatives house of the year: Macquarie Group
Energy Risk Awards 2020: Firm’s wide commodities presence, physical and financial risk expertise and financing capabilities result in standout deals
Energy Risk Awards 2020: The winners
Key wins for BP, Engie and Uniper while Macquarie takes the derivatives house of the year award
Electricity house of the year, Asia: Engie
Energy Risk Asia awards, 2018: As Asian power markets flourish, Engie uses European expertise to its advantage
Commodity finance house of the year: Societe Generale
Energy Risk Asia awards, 2018: standout financing deals reflect growing appetite for renewables and new approach to risk
Lessons from two commodity defaults
Regulators and exchanges need to learn from the Greenhat/PJM default in the US as well as the Norwegian Nasdaq blowout
Power traders slam Spain’s mooted plant closure rules
Tougher closure criteria would distort power prices and harm functioning of the market, say traders
Exchange of the year: APX
Exchange has responded well to the evolving European power market and changes in the products demanded by its members
UK power market investigation overshadowed by EMR
A Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) probe into the UK power market, which may result in a radical shake-up of the sector, is coming amid major changes to the industry under Electricity Market Reform. How the CMA reconciles this will be closely…