A new age for energy and commodity trading

Advises clients on energy markets and trading as well as smart grid, digital, and renewable technologies across the value chain. Advises clients in gas, power, and commodities markets on strategy, investment, growth, and transformation. June 2, 2021Commodity traders crave volatile markets, and they’ve had their fair share of them recently: Volatility is normal in commodities markets. But energy and commodities companies, including utilities, industrial firms, and trading houses, are now dealing with higher frequency of extreme events. They face four big fundamental changes in the markets. First, energy markets in particular are becoming more globally interconnected. For example, LNG prices are increasingly connecting major global gas markets to each other1. Similarly, European power and gas trading hubs are increasingly correlated from north to south and west to east, progressively transforming what used to be to a collection of local trading hubs into a more regional market. Second, m

Advises clients on energy markets and trading as well as smart grid, digital, and renewable technologies across the value chain. Advises clients in gas, power, and commodities markets on strategy, investment, growth, and transformation. June 2, 2021Commodity traders crave volatile markets, and they’ve had their fair share of them recently: Volatility is normal in commodities markets. But energy and commodities companies, including utilities, industrial firms, and trading houses, are now dealing with higher frequency of extreme events. They face four big fundamental changes in the markets. Firs