Weather Risk Management for Utilities & Energy
Below are a selection of articles and papers discussing the application of weather risk management to the utilities & energy industries.
Many of these articles and papers are in PDF format and will require you to download Acrobat Reader. 
If you have articles or papers that you'd like to promote to the Artemis audience please contact us.
Taking
the Weather Option
Article by Nicholas Ernst of Evolution
Markets
First Published June 2003
Using
weather futures as weather forecasts
Article by Vishu Kulkarni
(requires Acrobat Reader
)
First Published 2003
Risk
Management for Weather-Sensitive Distribution Revenue
Article by Tom Matthews, Director of
Risk Management, Kinder Morgan
First Published February 2003
Exotic
Weather Derivatives
Article by Andrew Hyman, Research Director,
PwC and Dr. Dan Gary (requires
Acrobat Reader
)
First Published 2001
The
Case for Solar Weather Derivatives
Article by Andrew Hyman, PricewaterhouseCoopers
(requires Acrobat Reader
)
First Published January 2001
Using
Weather Derivatives to Improve the Efficiency of Forward Markets
for Electricity
Paper by Prof. T.D. Mount of Cornell
University (requires Acrobat Reader
)
Betting
on the weather
Article from Global Energy Business Magazine
(requires Acrobat Reader
)
Weather
Derivatives are Warming Up
Article from Utilipoint IssueAlert
Weather
Risk - Power: Look to the future
Article from Risk Magazine
Weather
Risk Management: A Survivor of the Collapse/Demise of U.S. Energy
Merchants
Paper from R.J. Rudden Associates
(requires Acrobat Reader
)
Weather Derivatives - A New Risk Management Solution for Solar Power
Plants
Abstract of a papoer by Rainer Kistner,
Michael Geyer (requires Acrobat
Reader
)
Change
in the Weather
Article from Buyside Magazine
Taking
the Risk Out of Weather
Article from the ACHR News
Will Weather Derivatives Evolve Into A Useful Tool For Hedging Volumetric
Risk?
Article from Financial Engineering News
Weather
Derivatives Market: A cure for power price spikes?
Article from Risk Magazine
Weather
Derivatives and Their Implications for Power Markets
Article by Don Ellithorpe & Scott
Putnam from The Journal of Risk Finance (requires
Acrobat Reader
)
Frozen
Falls Flows West: A Tale Of Two Swaps
Article by Bob Dischel from erivativesreview.com
Weather
Hedging: Utility Decision Process
Presentation by Scott Scholten, Vermont
Gas Systems (requires Acrobat Reader
)
Innovative Structure Hedges Volume and Price Risk Using Weather
Derivatives: A Case Study of Sacramento Municipal Utility District
Article from Aquila Energy
Hedging
your Megawatts
Article from the Journal of Accountancy
Betting
against God
Article from Forbes Global
New
Tools of the Risk Trade
Article by Sally Stewart, Product Manager,
Risk of Transenergy Management Inc.
