I recently had the chance to catch-up with Randy Wilson, CEO of Houston-based Aquilon. For those that aren’t yet familiar with the company, Aquilon provides an invoice settlement/reconciliation platform... continue reading
Scheduling and tracking crude and refined products has always been a difficult task. Disparate systems, many with differing views of the transaction (contract vs. trade vs. movements) and lack... continue reading
In countries like the UK and Germany where renewables have become a large component of the generation mix, bringing on new assets and getting them to operate profitably has... continue reading
At the ETEM conference last week, quite a lot of panel time was dedicated to a discussion of spreadsheets versus ETRM. To me, this is a long dead topic... continue reading
ETOT, which takes place in London this week – more details at the ETOT website – attendees have been asked to complete a survey in advance of the Summit... continue reading
The 11th Annual Energy Trading Operations & Technology conference will be taking place on the 10th-11th October in London and both Patrick and I will be attending. I will... continue reading
Contigo is busy these days bringing new features and functionality to its ETRM solution – enTrader. I spoke with Product Manager Dean Haden recently to see what was new.... continue reading
I recently had the opportunity to visit with Mr. Jay Bhatty, CEO and founder of Houston-based NatGasHub.com (NatGasHub). NatGasHub is a natural gas scheduling service/tool that helps streamline what... continue reading
Brady PLC recently appointed Ms. Carmen Carey as CEO and I had the opportunity to talk with her and learn more about her background and approach to the role... continue reading
ComFin has been around quite a while. It started as part of PVM Group before becoming independent in 2005 offering ETRM software solutions in the global oil and gas... continue reading
On the 1st October 2018, I-SEM replaced the wholesale Single Electricity Market (SEM) in all of Ireland. The I-SEM was brought in “following an instruction to the SEM Committee from the... continue reading
Walking around E-World last month, I was struck at just how many ETRM software products now target European power and gas. In addition to the usual suspects like ION... continue reading
Airlines live and die on fuel prices – when the price of oil (and the jet fuel derived from that oil) is high, you’ll see lot of headlines about... continue reading
An interesting article in Forbes draws attention to the British retail energy segment and the collapse of a 10th independent retailer (Our Power) within a 12-month period. The article... continue reading
Anyone in the European energy and utility industry seems to make an annual migration to Essen each February. Actually, no offense to Essen, but it is just about the... continue reading
I recently had the opportunity to talk with Ms. Frances Dean, VP Operations & Corporate Services, and other senior members of the VAKT team. VAKT is a ‘blockchain initiative’... continue reading
Last week, in London, I stopped by BlackLight Systems on the offer of a walkthrough of the system. Sebastian Ferraccu, Co-Founder and CEO, had invited me to take a... continue reading
EU ETS Carbon prices are around 20 Eur as of today, slightly off from their recent high of around 25 Eur in August. After several years in which the... continue reading
Traders on Nordpool, and who are part of the Nasdaq clearing house, this last week faced a c.$133 million hole in a contingency fund as a trader defaulted as... continue reading
The explosion of data combined with the application of proper data management, AI and ML and visualization tools is opening up previously unheard of opportunities in commodity trading –... continue reading
The ETRM/CTRM software category comprises a wide range of solutions, from those that attempt to cover multiple commodities, broad functionality and geographies to those that are specialized point solutions.... continue reading
