POWER TRADING

Origination

 

Balancing Load and Resources

The short-term balancing of load and resources - at the most economical cost - is a constant challenge for any load serving entity.

APM Power Trading Team

The APM Power Trading Team can help you manage your generation assets, power supply contracts, wholesale power market transactions, demand-side operations and transmission positions to optimally meet your load obligations.

And we can help you do this no matter where you are located.  APM has Owners and Clients in almost every U.S. market region and all of the ISOs and RTOs.

Coordination with Other APM Groups

As part of optimizing your portfolio, the APM Power Trading Team will work closely with other groups at APM including Meteorology, Scheduling, Transmission Services, Natural Gas, Structuring, Credits, Contracts and Settlements.

APM Hourly Trading Group

APM’s Hourly Trading Group can help to optimize your portfolio within the operating day, through ISO/RTO bidding, market transactions, managing load following resources, pseudo-scheduling of generation resources and demand-side strategies.

APM Term Trading Group

APM’s Term Trading Group will use a nation-wide network of power industry contacts - as well as brokers and electronic trading platforms - to help optimize your portfolio by executing forward market transactions including daily, weekly and monthly products.  And in the structured ISO and RTO markets, they can help you manage your congestion risk.

Power Trading Services

Specific services provided by the Power Trading Team include help with:

  • Developing customized power trading strategies
  • Negotiating energy supply contracts
  • Planning, coordinating and executing daily power optimization strategies
  • Developing and executing portfolio hedging strategies
  • Executing transmission reservations
  • Providing 24x7 real-time portfolio management
  • Providing meteorological data and reports (daily, short-term and seasonal)
  • Developing and executing load management strategies

ORIGINATION  

Medium-Term and Long-Term Challenges

In addition to the short-term challenges of balancing load and resources, energy market participants are also faced with the medium-term and long-term challenges in managing their changing resource portfolio against their load obligations and market opportunities.

APM Origination Group

The APM Origination Group can help market participants with originated products – products that range in duration from seasonal up to a 5 year term – as well as longer-term resource planning.

All transactions that we recommend will have the goal of enhancing your power supply portfolio by meeting your risk tolerance and your portfolio hedging objectives.

Origination Services

Specific services provided by the APM Origination Group include help with:

  • Contacting numerous counterparties to gain information about origination products
  • Negotiating contracts for origination products
  • Actual execution of origination transactions
  • Evaluating financially-settled products and physical delivery products, for both power and fuels
  • Developing an overall strategy concerning counterparty and product choices
  • Valuing origination products by working closely with the APM Structuring Group.
  • Ensuring that transactions are properly documented and comply with credit and risk policies

Contact a Business Development Representative.