What was once the UtiliPointEuropeBlog has now become the CTRMBlog, a name/location that better reflects the focus of its primary author, Gary Vasey and the organization that he leads and represents as the Managing Director, Europe and Asia Pac for CommodityPoint. Be sure to check out the new site and stay up to date […]

If you’ve tried registering to the ETRMCommunity recently, but haven’t received your confirmation email, you might try again, or send me an email at preames@utilipoint.com. We seem to have a bit of an issue with approving new members. I’ll get our tech folks working on it.
Sorry and Thanks!

UtiliPoint Europe will be conducting a series of webinars through the summer in conjunction with PGSEnergy Training.
The schedule is as follows;
May 29th 10:00 am to 11:00 am (U.S. Eastern Daylight Savings Time) 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm (Central European Time) - Market Sentiment as the New Risk Factor in Commodity Markets - How Energy & […]

A friend of this blog, Johan Steunenberg, who has his own terrific blog at http://steunenberg.wordpress.com/ (although in German - thank goodness for the somewhat iffy Google translator), commented on my Comcast rant, and pointed me in the direction of Twitter, a “micro blogging” service that is apparently monitored by Comcast in order to keep tabs […]

UtiliPoint is expanding it’s blog presence with the “soft” launch of our new European Blog. I say “soft” launch as Gary Vasey, UtiliPoint’s VP of Europe, says he’s still in beta mode with it and it may evolve over the next month. He indicates that he will be covering a wide range of […]

As I am apt to do occasionally, I’m venturing outside of the ETRM space with this one…
This video is striking for many reasons. One of the most personal for me is that this gentleman is just about my age. I’m going to go home and give my daughter an extra hug tonight.

The ETRM Community website had been, and continues to be, pounded by spam postings. These posts are mostly advertising for porn, viagra, money making schemes, and some really strange things that I can’t describe here. As interesting as some of these things may be, I’m getting tired of having to constantly delete them from […]

David Rowe, the executive vice president of risk management at SunGard has started a new blog. He’ll be posting on new topics each week. The blog promises to be a good discussion across both technology and risk theory. Check it out here.

I just had to post this…its the newest French anti-tank missile in action.

New Energy Associates are blogging.  Very cool. Well more accurately they are Podcasting. This is really cool in my opinion!