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CREATING A COMMUNITY OF EDUCATED SOFTWARE BUYERS IN SEE
Last year at E-World in Essen, Germany, one of the take home messages for us was “Money is made at the frontiers”. Luckily for us, Southeast Europe is one such frontier for the development of energy markets and it comes with a set of specific challenges that are...

ETRM: WHERE’S THE FUN IN NATURAL GAS?
Following on the more general post on flow and bulk commodities, we wanted to go a little bit into the individual commodities and try to describe where the fun in each of them is. Natural gas won the first place, as it is a personal favorite, and it is probably the...

INTERRELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CONCESSION AGREEMENTS AND COMMERCIAL CONTRACTS IN OFFSHORE WIND PROJECTS
Since I joined the wind power industry the offshore installations in Europe grew 8 times and are now exceed 8000 MW. The future will bring even more: EWEA has identified 22 GW of consented offshore wind farms and future investment plans for more than 133 GW. There are...

WHAT DOES YOUR ETRM SYSTEM ALLOW YOU TO HEDGE WITH?
Hedging. When I started out as an ETRM consultant it took me a while to get the difference between trading and hedging – or at least get a feeling that I understand. For the sake of an ETRM implementation the exact differentiation does not matter that much (as long as...