EnergyCurves to market North American energy data

Four energy brokers have formed a Houston-based company called EnergyCurves to provide North American power and gas data services to the energy markets. The initial EnergyCurves products will be forward price curves for the North American gas and power markets which energy companies and related businesses can use to mark their books to market.

EnergyCurves’ founders Amerex Energy, Icap Energy, Prebon Energy and TFS Energy say the data will be aggregated by a third party. Each individual broker’s indicative end-of-day prices will be independently compiled into a set of forward curves with these curves then prepared for redistribution to customers and other data vendors.

Currently, companies gather broker quotes, futures quotes and historical spot pricing from participants in the energy industry in order to internally generate