Managing Energy Risk: A Nontechnical Guide to Markets and Trading

Energy markets are more perilous than ever before. Deregulation has forced a whole new world of trading and risk management jargon onto the power and energy marketer. How does the manager master this complex process, with its myriad experts, personalities, and systems? John Wengler identifies these issues, discusses and analyzes them, and in checklist fashion prioritizes for managers what they must do to succeed despite risks as diverse as price, trader, and credit. Written in plain English, the text is directed at upper management at all electric utilities, natural gas firms, oil companies, and industrial end-users served by the energy complex. 

Features & Benefits

• Gather a new understanding of impact of deregulation
• Understand new technical jargon and methods
• Have risk management terms demystified
• Obtain tools to manage the new trading and risk management experts joining the traditional utility culture

Audience

• Field level personnel
• Management
• Energy lending and finance professionals
• Anyone who seeks to understand how, or relies upon, energy markets
• Students

About the Authors

John Wengler is an Executive Consultant with R. W. Beck’s Energy Risk Management Group. Mr. Wengler has been in the energy risk management industry since 1996. In his role at R. W. Beck, Mr. Wengler provides executive-level advisory services to clients in the development and implementation of energy risk policies and procedures. He speaks worldwide on the topic and is a member of the American Power Conference planning committee. Prior to joining R. W. Beck, he was president of SAVA Risk Management Corporation where his responsibilities included product development, marketing and user education. Mr. Wengler received a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from the University of Wisconsin and an MBA in marketing and finance from Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management. 

Details
Type: Hardcover
Size: 6x9
Pages: 393
Published: 2001
ISBN: 9780878147946