Energy Risk

End of an era for GdF

Gaz de France is certain to lose its monopoly position – without it, what strategy can the gas giant adopt in a liberalised European market? Mickael Laurans reports

A safety net for energy traders

Will the Edison Electric Institute’s master netting agreement help reduce credit risk for energy traders? Kevin Foster takes a look at this new initiative

A joint state-space model for spot and futures power

Portfolio-wide risk management requires a model that accounts correctly for correlations between the spot asset and various futures products. Kjetil Kåresen and Egil Husby discuss a joint multi-factor model for power spot and futures prices and show how…

Going short under the SMD

Scott Greene, Mark Niehaus and Pankaj Sahay of PricewaterhouseCoopers look at the effect of settling a short position in the day-ahead market under the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s proposed standard market design

Build in or buy out?

Is it more cost-effective for companies to buy available systems from vendors or to develop and deploy their own energy trading and risk management solutions? Bob Bridger of Vedaris looks into the dilemma faced by many companies

Fighting oil volatility

Oil cartel Opec froze its production output level at its last meeting in September. With war in Iraq on the cards, Shifa Rahman reports on the future of oil volatility

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