Renewables
Scaling up hydrogen production in France: learning rates versus economies of scale strategies
The authors investigate hydrogen production infrastructure in an effort to offer a vision for electrolyzer planning which avoids sunk costs at an early stage.
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
Energy Risk Awards 2020: The winners
Key wins for BP, Engie and Uniper while Macquarie takes the derivatives house of the year award
ESG-linked hedges raise interest – and questions
Carrot-and-stick trades pay off if green targets are hit, but setting and monitoring those goals is tricky
Calls to hike climate policy raise risk for oil firms
A ramp-up in policy could place more oil and gas assets under threat of stranding
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…
Pricing fast-responding electric storage assets in the presence of negative prices and price spikes: a simulation-and-regression approach
This study focuses on the use of batteries for real-time power trading and proposes a simulation-and-regression-based valuation model.
Wind firming caps found better than swaps at reducing risk
Wind firming deals claim to address intermittency and stabilise renewable generator cashflow, but how effective are they?
Energy Risk Asia Awards 2018: The winners
BNP Paribas takes Derivatives house, BP wins Oil & products and BOCI and Engie scoop two awards each
Risk evolves in springtime of energy spin-offs
New risk management challenges as firms split legacy fossil-fuel operations from renewable-focused areas
Brexit uncertainty for UK and Irish power markets
Traders remain in the dark about the future of the UK’s participation in the IEM and how a “no deal” Brexit scenario might affect power trading in the future
‘Trump digs coal’ – but is that enough?
Are recent efforts by President Trump to support US coal levelling the playing field for power generation fuel sources, or just flogging a dead horse?
US carbon trade surviving below the radar
As the Trump administration refuses to address climate change both at home and abroad, a growing number of states are taking the lead, but will this enthusiasm reignite US environmental trading markets?
UK balancing market opening up to industrials
Will efforts to open UK balancing market garner interest beyond suppliers and aggregators?
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 changing face of European power trading
Large pools of data, an abundance of cheap and powerful computing capacity, the rise of renewables, and the development of the smart grid are having a significant impact on European power and gas trading. New and interesting developments continue to…
The Nordic/Baltic spot electric power system price: univariate nonlinear impulse-response analysis
This paper studies the characteristics of the conditional mean and volatility of daily price movements of the system price for the Nordic/Baltic one-day-ahead spot electric power market.
Navigating the new energy market dynamics
Utilities need to adopt new decision-making tools in order to compete in the “new normal” environment of renewable energy supply