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Advanced Risk Management for Physical Commodities: The Topaz Approach

In risk management, valuations of physical commodity trades and assets are often challenging due to modeling complexity. This complexity arises naturally from the physical characteristics of the commodity, for... continue reading

VAKT Expanding its Focus

VAKT has been working hard during Q1 on a series of inititiatives, Dale Becker told me this week. Many of these are aimed at extending the use of the... continue reading

Darling Analytics: Full-Scale AI Platform for Commodity Traders and Operators

AI is being discussed, analyzed, and explored everywhere these days. Yet, it’s still rare to see AI-based software for commodity traders that features full-scale AI capabilities and is already... continue reading

ION’s Carbon Zero Gaining Ground

ION’s Carbon Zero solution is one of a small number of solutions that are currently available for firms to manage their own CO2 emissions obligations and voluntary sustainability targets,... continue reading

AI facilitates Brady’s automated trading

AI is the defining word of our time. Conversations about AI permeate every aspect of the energy business from coding assistance, data analysis, and forecasting to interface development, risk... continue reading

US Industry Report Sees 35-40% Growth in US Energy Demand by 2040

Yesterday, I received an email from American Clean Power highlighting the key findings of a new study report. The US National Power Demand Study – commissioned by the Alliance... continue reading

FIS: market trends and outlook 2025

Recently, I had the opportunity to connect with Harshad Kolpyakwar, head of product management for Energy at FIS, to discuss the market outlook and FIS’s plans for 2025. As... continue reading

First impressions of Fendahl’s Fusion User Interface

The Fendahl team recently presented me with an overview of their Fusion CTRM solution. Fendahl claims their software is intuitive and easy to use.  While most software vendors make... continue reading

Brady’s Integrated Energy Ecosystem: from data management to trading.

Recently, Brady released a white paper outlining how their Energy Data Manager (EDM) interacts with ETRM systems and why EDM is a vital component of the modern energy ecosystem.... continue reading

Brady’s Igloo Implemented for Fund in Three Weeks

Brady’s recent announcement around a commodity trading hedge fund adopting Igloo, Brady’s SaaS ETRM,  to accelerate efficiency caught my interest. And, as it turns out, there is quite the... continue reading

Energy One Sees Technology as a Key to its Future Success

Damien Tampé is Energy One’s Global CTO and someone I had not met until last week. Keen to learn where Energy One was going with technology, I had a... continue reading

Prague-based Growing Technologies sro Markets SaaS CTRM

I quite often discover new vendors and often discover that they have actually been around a while operating in a discrete niche and doing well. At the back end... continue reading

Energy One’s European ETRM Gaining Ground

Contigo Software had always enjoyed a strong UK presence and installed base with its enTrader ETRM solution – even being deployed by firms with other ETRMs installed specifically to... continue reading

The market is looking for solutions supporting battery optimization and trading

It is evident that energy transition technologies continue to advance despite certain challenges. This is particularly true for power grid expansions and the development of flexibility markets, where Battery... continue reading

VAKT’s 2024 Prepared the Ground for Significant Expansion

It’s been a year since VAKT appointed Tasja Botha as CEO and so recently, I contacted her to find out how she felt that year had gone and what... continue reading

Amphora Looks to Alchemy

Amphora had a good year in 2024 increasing it client base and ending the year with a very full pipeline, David Glasspool told me recently as I checked in... continue reading

As Previse Systems Grows – What Lays Behind its Success?

In a relatively short space of time Previse Systems has gained mind share in the industry, according to our latest vendor perception study, and already has more than twenty... continue reading

Brady’s Igloo ETRM SaaS Sought Out by Fund Investors

I have always been intrigued by hedge funds – especially those operating in commodities trading and twenty years ago even wrote a book on the topic for John Wiley... continue reading

Hitachi’s Role in Advancing AI for Energy Forecasting and Optimization

AI is a key focus in today’s business landscape, with many companies exploring its applications across various domains. In the ETRM space, AI offers transformative potential. For instance, large... continue reading

AI Transforming Energy Sector

When considering AI applications in the energy sector, use cases that come to mind normally include predictive analytics, reporting, and the automation of back-office processes and operations. Modern forecasting... continue reading

Hitachi Energy Positions Around the Energy Transition

Hitachi Energy occupy an interesting position as a vendor from our perspective as analysts. In earlier versions of our published book on CTRM software, we highlighted the asset heavy... continue reading