Energy Risk

Peabody promotes head of US coal and emissions trading

Missouri-based coal company Peabody Energy has promoted Raphael Pierce to vice-president of trading at its Peabody Coaltrade subsidiary. He will continue to head up US coal and emissions trading, but with added responsibilities.

Refco hires OTC energy broking team

The European arm of New York-based financial services firm Refco has hired two brokers to form an over-the-counter (OTC) energy derivatives team. Glen Ward and Andrew Riddell join Refco Overseas in London from US broker Amerex’s London office.

Williams to retain energy trading business

Oklahoma-based energy company Williams said late last week it will continue operating its energy trading business, having failed to sell the rest of the wholesale power division. The company is focusing on long-term supply contracts and doing only a very…

Goldman Sachs buys more US power plants

Goldman Sachs has added to its portfolio of US physical energy assets by buying equity interests in 12 power plants and a natural gas pipeline for $656 million from bankrupt Maryland-based National Energy & Gas Transmission (NEGT). The investment bank…

NRG Energy to sell another power plant

Minnesota-based NRG Energy has agreed the sale of its 1,160 megawatt (MW) generating plant in Minooka, Illinois to an affiliate of asset acquisition company LS Power. NRG has the right to buy back a 40% interest in the project within a 10-year period,…

Offshore wind to be big business, says new Fitch MD

Offshore wind projects and the newly expanded European Union will both bring good opportunities to Fitch Ratings over the coming 18 to 24 months, according to the Fitch Energy Group’s new European, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) managing director Andrew…

DTE Energy Trading opts for Amerex STP solution

DTE Energy Trading, a subsidiary of Detroit-based DTE Energy, has implemented Amerex Energy’s straight-through processing (STP) product, Xcheck - a web-based trade confirmation system that replaces the manual process of generating, transmitting and…

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