Environment-Renewables
Spectron trades first OTC REC option
Energy broker Spectron has brokered the first over-the-counter option on US renewable energy credits (RECs)
Deutsche Bank Launches Tradeable Equity Research Index
Deutsche Bank has launched the Solar Europe Index, the first in a series of indexes it has planned for giving investors access to its equity research analysts’ shorter-term investment ideas.
Virgin Trains to use biofuel
Greenergy Fuels, the UK’s leading independent fuels supplier, will partner with Virgin Trains to supply up to 27,000 litres per week of a new B20 biofuel blend, which contains 20 per cent biodiesel and is designed for trains.
CCFE launches clean energy index
The Chicago Climate Futures Exchange (CCFE), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX), announced today that it will launch a futures contract based on WilderHill Clean Energy Index (ECO) on July 13.
EDF Energy to cut CO2 emissions by up to 60%
UK utility EDF Energy, part of the EDF Group, has committed to reduce the carbon intensity of its electricity generation activities by 60% by 2020, in part by building new nuclear capacity.
EOn creates EOn Energy Trading; reveals investment strategy
German utility EOn has announced plans to align its trading and power generation businesses “on more European lines,” according to a company statement, “in order to seize earnings and growth opportunities created by the integration of Europe’s energy…
The green question
Global carbon tradingPedro Moura-Costa, co founder of EcoSecurities, talks with Oliver Holtaway about his hopes for the future of emissions trading
Conference calling
This year's Energy Risk USA conference broke the record attendance of last year with more than 330 delegates gathering in Houston to focus on the latest issues in energy risk management. The Energy Risk team brings you some highlights
John Wengler
Entergy’s fun-loving chief risk officer talks to David Watkins about what led him into energy risk management
Forward thinking in Benelux
Roundtable
Bush lays out climate agenda – without emissions trading
In a speech in Washington ahead of the G8 meeting in Germany next week, US President George Bush laid out an agenda for tackling climate change.
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Unthinkably favourable
Imagination in stress testing demands unorthodox thinking, as even seemingly favourable events can have negative consequences. In the case of the oil markets, this means stress testing for a fall, as well as a rise, in oil prices, argues David Rowe
JP Morgan establishes alternative energy group
Investment bank JP Morgan has established an alternative energy investment banking group, bolstering its efforts to capitalize on the current growth of environmentally friendly technologies.
EIB expands fundraising with two new bonds
The European Investment Bank (EIB), the multi-government-owned financing arm of the European Union, has launched two new bonds, a multinational environmental bond and its first rouble-denominated issue.