Energy Risk USA: Storms, warm winter, fuel interest in weather derivatives

The extreme weather that hit North America recently has spurred interest in tools designed to hedge weather risk, according to participants speaking at Energy Risk USA

The perfect storm

The market for weather derivatives has received a boost from the unusual weather that affected North America in the past year, according to experts in a discussion panel on weather risk management at the annual Energy Risk USA conference in Houston, Texas.

Most notably, the extremely mild winter of 2011–12 – which, combined with a boom in shale gas production, caused US natural gas prices to hit their lowest level in a decade – has raised interest in weather derivatives among concerned gas

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