What is Portfolio Management to utilities? On the one hand, it includes the balance of power-generation and purchase, and, on the other hand, their own consumption and sales. For our industrial customers, it usually has to do with optimizing energy purchases, possibly in connection with the optimization of their own energy-generating systems. As part of our integrated portfolio management, we consider procurement/self-generation and sales/own consumption, as a whole. The fall in prices on the wholesale markets for electricity complicates the sound operation of conventional generation plants in terms of their internal production.
Adjustments in the marketing of the systems are needed in order to secure long-term profitability, if the potential of other markets is used (for example as reservation bidding phases for balancing energy), the production profile changes. Accordingly, Portfolio Management must respond as a whole. Thus, although ultimately the resulting 'open positions' are managed, individual projects both in the area of procurement/self-generation as well as in marketing/sales can begin.
Our consultancy on portfolio management procurement answers all your questions about the optimal power purchase, ranging from; the development and formulation of a procurement strategy, and consulting on suitable procurement timing; to assessing the success of procurement; and the determination of transfer prices within your company. We support your portfolio management in gas procurement, based on your current procurement structure (for example, long-term contracts, gas storage, flexible contract components and the wholesale market) to design a custom-made procurement strategy for you.
Are you looking for new marketing strategies for your power plant? If so, r2b energy consulting is the right choice! We analyze your production or consumption system with you, with regard to its ability to market flexibility. We take into account the specific characteristics of your system constellation in our power plant deployment model: this depicts your system and its flexibility commercialization potential in all markets with the necessary level of detail. We also integrate potential portfolio effects into the model, if several systems are considered together (taking into account, of course, all revenue and cost drivers). This allows us to achieve, inter alia, additional revenues by avoiding network utilization fees or alternative heat supply. In this context, you can also profit from our price prognosis tools.
We support you in the development and implementation of new products, and with entering new markets. Do you have the impression that the large amount of data available in your company should be better integrated into product development? Using our methodological know-how in the field of databases and our energy industry expertise, we will answer your questions in a targeted and personalized manner.
A large part of our customer base is currently engaged with the correct management of balancing energy. We will help you to improve your forecasts.
Client: Energy supply company
In this project, the customer aimed to completely realign the portfolio management to respond to changing conditions in the gas market. We supported the energy supply company – in this and several port projects – to make the most of every opportunity. The project steps included the establishment of the wholesale market price as transfer pricing, the development of a portfolio management strategy, the optimal management of long-term purchase agreements, as well as the development of risk management.
Client: Energy supply company
We integrated several gas storages into the overall optimum portfolio management, to account for the effects of balancing energy, the pressure and power provision and the intra-day structuring of the portfolio.
Client: Energy supply company
This power supply company’s commission saw us optimize a portfolio of several power plants that generate heat in addition to electricity and feed it into a connected heating network. In addition to heat restrictions, we take account of the avoided grid usage charges on the power plant connection level.