Environment-Renewables
Biomass back on track
Generating power through biomass – corn, soybeans, trees, plants and animal waste – looks set to receive a boost in the US, after stagnation during the 1990s, finds Elisa Wood
Shifting sands
High oil prices and a lack of accessibility to reserves are reawakening oil majors' interest in Canada's oil sands. David Watkins looks at their potential and at the challenges involved in this capital-intensive mining operation
Trading opinions
Energy risk professionals from all over Europe gathered in London last month at the Energy Risk Europe conference to debate the hottest topics facing the industry today. The Energy Risk team bring you some highlights
Weathering oil risk
Managing weather risk is increasingly important for petroleum companies. Murad Jivraj looks at how optimal oil risk management can be obtained through combining traditional structured products with new weather derivatives
VC funds clean up
Investment in clean energy technology is attracting new venture capital money even as the traditional investors, electric utilities, are withdrawing. In the first of a two-part series, Catherine Lacoursière investigates the latest financing trends in…
CERs come of age
A secondary market for certified emissions reductions generated by the Clean Development Mechanism now exists – but its emergence has been patchy, with some significant developments, along with some ongoing uncertainty. Point Carbon's research and…
Platform for production
While a healthy flow of new oil is forecast to come on stream over the next few years, there's concern that projects will be held up by a lack of infrastructure, particularly rig availability and personnel, finds Roderick Bruce
Western congestion
Despite huge strides to improve power transmission efficiency in California since 2001, the region is still flagged a 'critical congestion area' by the US Department of Energy. Neil O'Hara looks at the state of play
'Weak and watered down' regulatory relief in US
REGULATORY UPDATE
Surveying risk management
How is risk management viewed in your company? Are there risks you would like to measure but don’t? Which methodologies are most commonly used? What should the discipline tackle next? Energy Risks’ survey reveals recent trends in risk management.
SG, Rhodia launch emissions company
Société Générale and Rhodia Energy Services, a global specialty chemicals company, have formed a joint venture company to trade carbon.
SG names new Orbeo emissions joint venture with Rhodia
Paris-based bank Société Générale (SG) has released more details of its emissions trading joint venture with the French chemicals giant Rhodia, including the new company's name - Orbeo.
Risking it in Russia
When attempting to assess energy risk in Russia today, traditional methods of risk analysis are no longer sufficient; they mustbe accompanied by detailed political risk analysis, writes Robert Amsterdam
Risk management for LDCs
US Gas Distribution Companies, long experienced in managing volumetric risk, now face market risk, high commodity prices and credit risk. Matthew Frye looks at strategies to model these risks in aggregate