With Hurricane Gustav ripping it up in the Caribbean and projected to take aim at either Louisiana or the northwest Texas coast, market analysts are predicting at least a dime to quarter rise in gasoline prices as the storm is forcing evacuations and shut-in of platforms across a large swath of the Gulf. This […]

I recently had the opportunity to meet with two veterns of the ETRM space, Jason Wells and Kevin Gerold. As those that have been in this industry for a while may know, both of these gentlemen started with Nucleus in that company’s formative years and transitioned to Caminus after the acquisition. Kevin served […]

A UtiliPoint IssueAlertPatrick Reames
Obviously, one of the realities in writing a topical article like those in UtiliPoint’s IssueAlert is that the article represents developments around that topic up until the time the article is submitted by the author. But, as they say, life goes on and new developments emerge. Therefore, I’m taking this […]

As has been anticipated for some time, last night Triple Point announced the acquisition of Rome Corp., the developer of Rome Energy, one of the leading credit risk solutions for energy and commodity trading. According to the press release from TPT, “The acquisition broadens and deepens Triple Point’s product portfolio, enabling it to uniquely […]

Coinciding with the Energy Risk event in Houston this week, SunGard announced a couple of new additions to their existing product families.
For ZaiNet, their flagship deal capture and risk management product, they’ve announced the release of the Real Time Dashboard, which the company describes as follows…
The Real-Time Dashboard builds on real-time operational business intelligence (BI) […]

The Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) went down this morning for about two hours, leading the exchange to cancel all outstanding futures orders and putting a hold on OTC and Options trades. According the company, the event was caused by a power failure in its Chicago data center.
Frankly this is just inexcusable. There is no […]

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 & […]

Coming out of a record year in 2007 for ETRM product sales, we’ve observed a not unexpectedly slow first quarter 2008. The first quarter for any new year is historically the slowest, as budget dollars are being spent at the end of the year and vendors are pushing prospects to get signed up in […]

The Structure Group has just announced a new product for generation portfolio management. According the company, this new product, OfferManager, is an extension of nMarket and can create, analyze, and execute offers for energy and ancillary services for asset holders. It can communicate with fuels management systems and deal capture/ETRM systems via XML […]

Ironically, as I was attempting to post the Rome story below (about software delivered over the internet), I was being defeated by the worst internet service commercially available - the so-called “business” internet provided by Comcast - the same people that are completely inept at operating as a cable television provider…
I have nothing good to […]