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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

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

NatGasHub CEO Jay Bhatty building on a successful 2024

I recently had the opportunity to speak with Jay Bhatty, founder and CEO of NatGasHub, who shared some exciting updates.  Jay mentioned that 2024 was the best year yet... continue reading

E-world impressions 2025

E-World is as crowded as ever, with many familiar faces, people I meet regularly there. As usual, attendees are having meetings, exchanging opinions, engaging in discussions and having fun…... 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

Renewable Energy Transition: Opportunities, Challenges, and Costs

Flexibility in Renewable Energy Systems: A Crucial Challenge for the Energy Transition Flexibility in power systems based on renewable energy has become a critical issue in the energy transition.... 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

Enuit Upbeat about Asia-Pacific Region

Enuit always has quite a presence in the Asia-Pacific region in our Vendor Perception Studies and so far, this year is no different (the report is in progress). Much... continue reading

Nuclear Energy and AI: How hyperscale tech companies are shaping the power landscape

Recently, I came across several articles discussing the growing demand from hyperscale tech companies like Google, Amazon, and Meta for reliable, low-carbon, 24/7 electricity to power their data centers,... continue reading

BRICS CBDC Payments System Reaches Minimal Viable Product Stage

While many be somewhat aware that China, Russia and other BRICS nations are supposedly trying to create an alternative petrocurrency to the US Dollar, like me, they not have... continue reading

Trader Profits – Driving Increased Expenditures on Technology?

It’s no secret that commodity traders have had back-to-back record years in terms of profits. According to Oliver Wyman, profits likely exceeded $100 billion in 2022, enabling commodity traders... continue reading

NA LNG exports to increase markedly despite regulatory challenges

In January, as part of the Biden Administration’s climate agenda, the Department of Energy paused the approvals of pending and future LNG export projects in the US, citing the... continue reading

What Happened to Commodities News?

If you are a frequent visitor to CTRMCenter then you will know that we like to post a daily article of our own in the blog section and a... continue reading

VAKT Incorporates AI into its Tech Stack for Further Streamlining

VAKT sees AI within its platform as a potentially powerful tool that can help to further streamline business processes and workflows, particularly in handling barge nomination documents, inspection documents,... continue reading

Interest Rates up or down and Impact on Commodity Technology markets

I’m certainly not an economist but I can see through the political narrative trying to get interest rates down ahead of a US election. As I have argued here... continue reading

Reality check: Hydrogen’s role in the decarbonized economy.

I used to think about hydrogen as a game-changing fuel that could significantly decarbonize the economy and I was somewhat disappointed reading the recent article in the Financial Times... continue reading

Industry Views and the Importance of Surveys

This year will see ComTech doing another Vendor Perception Study (VPS) to see how vendor’s are faring and what the users and consultants in the industry think of them.... continue reading

AgFlow Has New Leadership as it Moves into Market Intelligence Provision

AgFlow has a new CEO as reported at the end of September. Sacha Prost now has the position and will lead the business going forward as Nabil Mseddi has... continue reading

E-world is coming….

I just booked my trip to Essen for E-World where I will be once again covering the vendors and whats hot…. E-world is back to a February slot this... continue reading

EnergyScan – A holistic suite of analytical data on energy and commodity markets

Consolidated energy and commodity market insights, analytics forecasts derived from AI tools, and up-to-date reports and news provided in one accessible platform and visualized in form of graphs and... continue reading

What is the place of nuclear technology in the future energy mix?

Discussions on how to reach net zero are running hot given that energy systems fully based on renewable power are not within reach in the next decades.  The reasons... continue reading