Anne Ku
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Forecasting to understand uncertainty in electricity prices
- By Anne Ku
- Published 09/20/2007
- Forecasting
- Unrated
Keywords: Forecasting, electricity markets,
Published in: Energy Trading
Publication year: 2002
The art of electricity price forecasting bears little resemblance to the utility practice it evolved from: trying to predict fuel costs. To predict prices, utilities and energy traders and wholesalers must resort to modeling electricity markets—no easy task. Price forecasting has become increasingly necessary and more complex for all market participants, as is evident from the variety of approaches being used today.
Published in: Energy Trading
Publication year: 2002
The art of electricity price forecasting bears little resemblance to the utility practice it evolved from: trying to predict fuel costs. To predict prices, utilities and energy traders and wholesalers must resort to modeling electricity markets—no easy task. Price forecasting has become increasingly necessary and more complex for all market participants, as is evident from the variety of approaches being used today.
The art of forecasting demand
- By Anne Ku
- Published 09/20/2007
- Forecasting
- Unrated
Keywords: forecasting
Published in: Global energy business
Publication year: 2002
Winning in competitive electricity markets takes a fair amount of educated guesswork. Energy marketers cannot be certain that their future delivery of power at the price specified in a long-term contract will earn them a profit—because supply, demand, and the going rate may differ from expectations at the time the contract was signed. As a result, energy traders are only as good as the load forecasts they use.
Published in: Global energy business
Publication year: 2002
Winning in competitive electricity markets takes a fair amount of educated guesswork. Energy marketers cannot be certain that their future delivery of power at the price specified in a long-term contract will earn them a profit—because supply, demand, and the going rate may differ from expectations at the time the contract was signed. As a result, energy traders are only as good as the load forecasts they use.
Volunteering to fight global warming
- By Anne Ku
- Published 12/29/2007
- Risk management
- Unrated
Keywords:
Published in: Global Energy Business
Publication year: 2001
Most energy companies know that governments will—sooner or later—impose limits on their emissions of greenhouse gases. A small but growing number— including two oil majors and some big U.S. utilities—are already preparing for the inevitable. They are taking voluntary steps to reduce the amounts of CO2 and pollutants their activities generate, and experimenting with market-based and internal programs for trading emissions credits for multiple greenhouse gases. Such proactive approaches do more than lend needed certainty to corporate environmental planning; they also promise to give their ‘green’ adopters a competitive edge, in the form of early practical experience with emissions measurement and trading and compliance risk management.
Published in: Global Energy Business
Publication year: 2001
Most energy companies know that governments will—sooner or later—impose limits on their emissions of greenhouse gases. A small but growing number— including two oil majors and some big U.S. utilities—are already preparing for the inevitable. They are taking voluntary steps to reduce the amounts of CO2 and pollutants their activities generate, and experimenting with market-based and internal programs for trading emissions credits for multiple greenhouse gases. Such proactive approaches do more than lend needed certainty to corporate environmental planning; they also promise to give their ‘green’ adopters a competitive edge, in the form of early practical experience with emissions measurement and trading and compliance risk management.