Weather derivatives
Energy Risk Commodity Rankings 2024: markets buffeted by geopolitics and economic woes
Winners of the 2024 Commodity Rankings steeled clients to navigate competing forces
On the spatial hedging effectiveness of German wind power futures for wind power generators
In this paper, the authors consider wind power utilization in thirty-one different locations in Germany.
Statistical analysis of photovoltaic and wind power generation
The author presents a comparison between maximal and daily average production of photovoltaic and wind energy based on a transmission system operator in Germany using statistical analysis with different seasonality functions.
Advancing on all fronts
Sompo Global Weather continues to expand its offering with timely, tailored weather risk solutions designed to service a growing global audience and diversification into new sectors supplying responsive solutions
Weather house of the year: Endurance Global Weather
Team crafts innovative wind contracts to manage generators’ unique risks
Weather Talk: Video Q&A with Swiss Re Corporate Solutions’ Stuart Brown
Sponsored video: Swiss Re Corporate Solutions
Cutting Edge: Co-simulation of risk factors in power markets
A simple but realistic model to co-simulate the time series of temperature, electricity load and prices is proposed
Weather house of the year: Munich Re Trading
Weather derivatives specialist wins praise for consistent, high-quality service
Looking back: El Niño boosts weather derivatives
December 1997 saw one of many false starts for weather derivatives
Weather House of the Year: Swiss Re
Reinsurance giant shows continued innovation with Uruguay hydro deal
Real to set sights on renewables after acquisition by Munich Re
Purchase of RenRe Energy Advisors could lead to new weather hedging tools for renewable energy
Cutting edge: Hedging price and volumetric risks of fixed-price load-serving contracts in natural gas markets
Cutting edge: Hedging price and volumetric risks of fixed-price load-serving contracts in natural gas markets
Lynda Clemmons joins NRG Energy
Lynda Clemmons, a pioneer in the field of weather derivatives and emissions trading, has been hired by NRG Energy to help run its green technology team
Weather study finds that hedging improves firm value
Hedging programmes have a positive effect on a company’s share price and financial performance, according to a new academic study that examines the use of weather derivatives by US utilities
Energy Risk USA 2012
Platform for discussion
Energy Risk USA: Storms, warm winter, fuel interest in weather derivatives
The extreme weather that hit North America recently has spurred interest in tools designed to hedge weather risk, according to participants speaking at Energy Risk USA
Insurance sector struggles with US regulators' lack of clarity on Fatca
Uneasy anticipation
Renewable energy companies increase derivatives use: survey
Companies in the renewable energy industry are increasingly turning to financial derivatives to manage risk