Business to Business Energy Trading

Publication Date	June 2007
Publisher	Aruvian Research
Product Type	Report
Pages	96
ISBN Number	not applicable
Product Code	ARU00134

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Summary

The energy community is slowly emerging from two decades of obsession with speculation and trading. The era of the energy traders began in the early 1980s, with the deregulation of oil markets by the Reagan and Thatcher administrations, gathered force as Enron and its fellow travelers extended the trading culture to the natural gas and later electricity businesses, and came to an abrupt end in 2002 with the sudden collapse of confidence in many of the premises of the Enron model.

In retrospect, the rise of the energy trader paralleled a national fascination with making gains from an activity that usually operates on the margin of the economy. While every trader with swagger believes he or she will add immense value to an enterprise, with a few notable exceptions, most do not do so. Every experienced trading manager knows that, left to their own devices, most traders will in fact lose money.

This boom in online energy trading has provided a golden opportunity for many companies trading in financial securities to change over to handling energy companies' risk as well. Aruvian Research's report on Business to Business Energy Trading explores all the facets of this fast growing industry and provides a look at what makes up trading of energy exchanges. The report looks at the leading market places in today's age, as well as the infamous Enron fiasco. An analysis of the technologies involved in B2B Energy Trading is also included in the report, along with the basics of energy trading, the process itself, parties involved, and much more. Read on inside to discover more.

Content

A. Executive Summary
B. Introduction to Energy Trading
- Defining Energy Trading
- Emergence of a Global Energy Market
- Limiting Energy Trading
- Promotion of Location-Based Marginal Prices
C. Profiling the Industry
- Reservations on Market Performance
- Industry Reforms
- Determining Risks in Energy Trading
- Influencing the Stakeholders
- Differentiating between B2B & B2C
- Trading On-line & Via Auctions
- Analyzing B2B Energy Trading
D. Essentials of Energy Trading
- Strategies for Corporate Success
- Evolving Organizational Capabilities
- Focus on Regulation
- Importance of IT
- Maturity Curve & Energy Trading
- Energy Trading Stages of Tomorrow
- Transforming Existing Systems
- Emergence of Service-Oriented Architecture
- Importance of Data Access
E. Hedging & Energy Trading
F. Technologies Involved in Energy Trading
- Straight Through Processing Technology
G. Corporate World & Dynamics of Energy Trading
- Trading Strategy
- Importance of Market Intelligence
- Experience of Energy Forecasting
- Governance Processes
- Risks for Companies Involved in Energy Trading
- Integrating Dynamic Value Management
- Changing Approach to Risk Management
- Economies of Scale & Consolidation
H. Basics of Energy Trading
- Effect of Energy Trading on the Energy Market
I. Managing the Risk of Energy Trading
- Essentials of Energy Trading
- IT Applications
- Information Infrastructure
- Functionality of the Trading Life Cycle
- Integrating Stages in the Life Cycle
- Laying the Right IT Foundation
J. Changing Landscape of Energy Trading
- Commoditization Process
- Short-Term Forward Trading
- E-commerce Intermediaries
- Managing Counter-Party Credit Risk
- Future of E-commerce Trading
- Consolidation of Markets
- Inter-Dependencies of Markets
K. Leading Market Places
- Energy Data Management (EDM) Pro
- Enermetrix.com
- Utility.com
- HoustonStreet.com
- Essential.com
- Wisconsinpublicservice.com
- Altra Market Place
- The Demand Exchange
- EnronOnline (EOL)
- TradeSpark
- Intercontinental Exchange
- RedMeteor
L. Outlook for Energy Trading
M. Appendix
- Case Study of the Coasian Model
- Figures & Tables
N. Glossary of Terms
List of Figures & Tables
Figures
- Maturity of Energy Markets
- Determining Market Maturity
- Judging Risks for Parties Involved
- Strategies for Trading Success
- Maturity Curve
- Risks for Companies
- Importance of Market Intelligence
- The EDM Process
- Life Cycle of Energy Trading
- Architecture Integration & Energy Trading
- Integration, Functionalities & Energy Trading
- Business Drivers
Tables
- Major B2B Trading Market Places
- Applications of Energy Trading