Energy Trading & Risk Management Practice
UtiliPoint’s® Energy Trading and Risk Management (TRM) practice provides expert information, independent research, market studies, consulting and analyst services in the area of energy commodity trading, transaction and risk management. UtiliPoint’s practice professionals are acknowledged and accomplished experts in their field and are relied upon by their clients to provide unambiguous and independent advice and information. In fact, practice staff published the first book on ETRM Software in May 2006 (Trends in Energy Trading, Transaction and Risk Management Software – A Primer, by Dr. GM Vasey & Mr. Andrew Bruce, BookSurge, 2006).
The TRM practice provides the following services:
- Information and advice on market and technology trends, and analysis to energy companies, utilities, investment banks, hedge funds and market oversight agencies
- Management and Strategic Consulting including software selection, risk management and policy definition, and risk audits
- Advisory services and custom research projects. The practice has produced a number of definitive reports on business processes and software usage in the industry
- Go-to-market strategy consulting for technology vendors including market sizing, target market definition and market planning
UtiliPoint brings our clients broad and deep coverage of the energy and utilities industry based on our world-class research and analysis capabilities. Our consultants are often called upon to assist with business and strategic planning, management facilitation, project work and research. UtiliPoint’s extensive scope of research and subject matter expertise is unparalleled in the industry and presents the occasion for our clients to obtain maximum business value from our services.
Clients leverage our knowledge and capabilities by engaging the TRM practice in:
Custom Research and primary research capabilities in market trends, forecasts and competitive and market analysis. The practice has produced a number of definitive and unique reports characterizing the North American ETRM software market and usage.
Analyst Services that routinely and expertly track all technology developments in the industry, track all vendors and software products in the market, forecasts market developments and assist clients in the identification and deployment of solutions.
Consulting Services including strategy consulting, IT strategy and planning, risk audits, policy and controls, risk management, technology selection, quality assurance, project management and market positioning improvement.
Technology Vendor Services to assist technology providers with market studies and marketing planning to maximize market penetration and success. UtiliPoint consultants and analysts can also provide a variety of content for whitepapers, articles, websites, online seminars and collateral development.
Energy Trading Trends Analysis including monitoring hedge funds and investment banks activities in energy commodities markets and through a partnerships with the Energy Hedge Fund Center LLC (http://www.energyhedgefunds.com/), provides the Directory of Energy hedge funds and a free online community.
Benchmarking studies that compare industry wide energy trading and risk management business process, IT expenditures and other metrics identifying trends and helping clients understand how effective their operations are with respect to others in the industry.
UtiliPoint TRM Practice analysts and consultants also maintain the ETRM Community (http://www.etrmcommunity.com/), a free online community and weblog focused on developments in energy trading and risk management and provide the Directory of ETRM Vendors and Products, a subscription service that tracks all vendors and software products in the ETRM space, available at UtiliPoint’s website.
