Risk management
AI in energy risk management: use cases and pitfalls
How are energy risk managers using and responding to the use of AI in their firms? Mark Nicholls reports
AI autonomy may redefine risk management roles
Risk Live: Machine validation of autonomous processes may emerge “relatively soon”, EIF risk chief says
How AI agents can join the dots for risk managers
Citi risk expert outlines agentic AI tool that would pull together structured and unstructured data on trading and lending approvals to create single, unified view of risk
Deal of the year: ENGIE and Return’s virtual FPA
Energy Risk Awards 2026: Virtual battery portfolio deal provides a template for scaling battery storage across Europe
Risk management is key in this unpredictable environment
With energy markets upended by crisis after crisis, the best strategy is always to be hedged against extremes
Environmental products house of the year: Marex
Energy Risk Awards 2026: Marex sees opportunity for environmental commodities in the latest energy crisis
Natural gas/LNG house of the year: Macquarie Group
Energy Risk Awards 2026: In rapidly shifting gas market, bank’s wide physical activity helps clients unlock crucial optionality
Innovation of the year – energy firm: Axpo
Energy Risk Awards 2026: Energy firm creates pioneering data and analytics platform that increases commercial and client value
Energy Risk Awards 2026: The winners
Award winners guide clients through multiple market shocks thanks to physical market presence and data & analytics prowess
AI project of the year: SOCAR Türkiye
Energy Risk Awards 2026: Risk team harnesses AI to transform RCSA into a scalable, sustainable and internally owned capability
Newcomer of the year: Abaxx Exchange
Energy Risk Awards 2026: New exchange sets out to modernise commodity derivatives by aligning them to physical markets
Energy Risk Debates: the Iran conflict and the widening mandate of the risk manager
Panellists discuss the impact of the Middle East crisis so far on risk teams and the drive towards enterprise risk management
Abaxx: meeting the need for new commodity derivatives
Abaxx revamps commodity hedging with a suite of modern contracts
Tokenised commodities could help oil the machine
Shifting physical assets onto the blockchain eases collateral frictions, argues crypto expert
Energy Risk Debates: risk management in the clean energy space
Panellists discuss the unique issues facing firms in renewables, clean energy and carbon markets
Energy Risk Commodity Rankings 2026: adapting to structural change
The 2026 Commodity Rankings reveal the dealers and brokers chosen to steer firms through rapid and structural change
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
Next-gen PPA contracts reshaping European power markets
As energy market participants seek new ways of capturing value from volatility, new skills are required to structure and price increasingly complex power purchase agreements
Energy Risk reaction: Impact of Middle East conflict on hedging and longer term risk
Energy Risk talks to Riccardo Rossi at Centrica and Rob McLeod at Hartree Partners about the impact of the Iran crisis so far on firms exposed to energy
Energy Risk Debates: the role of the risk manager
Panellists discuss the different roles of the risk manager, how much standardisation there is across firms and whether the role is ever clear