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MDA EarthSat Weather, a consulting group for weather risk and commodity weather products and services, have announced the expansion of their current wind generation forecast product range. They are expanding their focus beyond the U.S. and will now offer forecast data and information for stations in the UK, Ireland, and Germany bringing their forecasts and […]

Bermuda domiciled reinsurer Renaissance Re’s weather and energy risk management arm, RenRe Energy Advisors Ltd., have seen a large seasonal loss over the winter due to warmer than normal conditions across the U.S. and Europe according to their recent quarterly earnings call (transcript available here). It’s their second quarterly loss in succession as both Q4 […]

CatVest Petroleum Services LLC, who launched last year offering oil spill risk modelling  and transfer services (specifically the creation of parametric triggers to allow for oil spill ILS issuance), have today announced the launch of a new model which targets more comprehensive energy industry losses. The CatVest EnergyRisk model is a suite of tools which […]

The weather risk market demonstrated its diversity and growth at the recent Weather Risk Management Association (WRMA) 12th Annual European Meeting in Dusseldorf, Germany. Over ninety weather risk professionals from six continents and seventeen countries attended, demonstrating continuing global interest in weather risk hedging and making it the most diverse WRMA event yet.

At the recent Weather Risk Management Association’s (WRMA) 13th annual meeting held in Houston, Texas earlier this month participants on a panel about power and natural gas agreed that the energy markets continue to be the primary users of weather hedging and weather risk management tools.

A really interesting new weather risk hedging product designed to help the wind power industry hedge the financial risk of wind variability has just been announced in a joint statement by renewable energy risk analysis firm 3TIER® and Galileo Weather Risk Management. They’ve collaborated to create a financial instrument that could have a huge impact […]

A new insurance facility has been launched today which will offer insurance products to renewable energy projects in developing countries. The facility has been launched by this coalition of re/insurers and environmental organisations; Munich Re, RSA Insurance Group, CarbonRe, the Global Environment Facility and the United Nations Environment Programme. The global renewable energy insurance facility […]

Here’s a valuable lesson for all those involved in the investment aspect of the energy sectors. Cumulus Energy Fund, managed by PCE Investors Ltd, has gained 46% this year to the end of July, beating some of its competitors by a pretty significant margin to top a report looking at returns from energy hedge funds. […]

Willis, the global insurance broker, has closed what is being called a ground-breaking index-based hedge for U.S. electric generation and retail company NRG Energy Inc. The transaction offsets the potential financial impact to NRG if a hurricane were to affect its business in the Houston, Texas area. The risk management vehicle used is known as […]

Marsh has teamed up with Berkshire Hathaway to create a windstorm insurance program aiming to bring capacity back to the hard-hit energy companies who operate in the Gulf of Mexico. The program has been called the Cost and Certainty Coverage Program (or Triple C for short) and carries $500m of aggregate, annual capacity. Underwritten by […]