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	Preem AB Selects Allegro Energy Trading and Risk Management Solution

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Market Brief 600Kb
Power 8.1 656Kb

Case Study

A company in the southern United States provides wholesale power generation and transmission to 1.4 million customers. To view and schedule physical power, the company was using internal tools to manage their natural gas procurements and transmissions processes. Anticipating substantial future growth, the company sought a solution to help them better manage their critical daily operations. After an exhaustive vendor selection process, the power company selected Allegro to provide a proven solution to meet their enterprise-wide needs.

Allegro Development met their requirements by demonstrating a deep understanding of their business. Allegro was able to deliver solutions that met all business needs surrounding their power and transmission processes. The application provided the company with a powerful and configurable solution for their transmission and power business while delivering a measurable return on investment.

Power Transmission ETRM Solutions

Allegro ETRM Solutions for Power Transmission's unique commercial and logistics demands present merchant power generators, utilities and power traders with daily business challenges. Allegro’s proven transmission and power solutions provide users with efficiencies in tagging, scheduling, valuation and settlement of transmission. Allegro’s transmission solutions also streamline the process of planning, scheduling and transferring physical power between counterparties.

Allegro solutions capture and maintain transmission reservations.
E-tagging allows users to review and approve paths prior to executing schedules.
Allegro’s power tagging solution allows users to manage the processes around creating e-tags, executing curtailments and creation of tag forms. Within the e-tag view users determine which tags are to be submitted, submit them and refresh the e-tag from the Tag Authority.
Allegro solutions also deliver measurement statements and power settlement.

Optimal Software Components for Power Transmission

Trade Execution - Provides tools to efficiently capture and confirm physical and financial trades for commodities.
Trade Strategy - Provides the ability to define trading strategies, which can be made up of existing positions and hypothetical positions, to allow for analysis of different trading scenarios while setting operational goals and limits.

Positions 8.0 - Provides comprehensive risk position reporting and viewing capabilities. This component allows reporting on Mark to Market, exposure, limit management, and profit and loss across the entire portfolio.
Optimization 8.0 - Calculates the incremental valuation of all possible dispositions of long and short commodity positions, based on market prices, transportation, storage, and processing information.
Simulation - Provides a set of tools to help analyze the impact to exposure and profit and loss resulting from movements in the market.
Credit 8.1 - Delivers advanced credit monitoring, analysis, scoring and rating, and overall counterparty credit management to accurately measure current and future exposure along with using robust credit risk models to accurately rate counterparty credit scores in a timely manner.

Power 8.0 - Manages physical power scheduling, transmission and actualization of power and ancillary services.

Contracts 8.0 - Captures and manages all contract information across the enterprise and through the entire contract management life-cycle.
Settlement 8.0 - Provides the tools that settle and feed data to invoice physical, financial and other transactions associated with commodity transactions and logistical movements.
Net Valuation 8.0 - Enables the valuation of inventory along with the ability to complete net forward, net back, and profit margin calculations across commodities, including commodity value, transactional, and transportation costs.
Price 8.0 - Provides flexible tools to capture, create, and access pricing data and forward curves for all commodities, including coal, natural gas, electric power, crude, refined products and natural gas liquids (NGLs).
Currency 8.0 - Provides the solution to enable management of multiple currencies including the ability to capture currency exchange rates and currency trading.
Hedge 8.1 - Assists with hedge accounting and fair value disclosure requirements by providing robust tools for analysis and reporting such as Financial Instrument Management, Currency Management, Interest Rate Management, Fair Value Management, Fair Value Option Management and Disclosure Management.
FERC Connect 8.1 - Assists in the ease of extracting and compiling all transactional natural gas and electricity data need to meet current FERC 552 and FERC EQR regulatory reporting requirements. Upon validation, the information can automatically be filled and uploaded to FERC in an accurate and timely manner.
Emissions 8.1 - A dedicated component providing efficient, and manageable yet comprehensive capability to accommodate trade activity for either renewable energy credits or emissions certificates. This functionality is unique to the market, in that it not only supports current market conditions but allows customers to be ahead of the curve as mandates by various global requirements change.

Workflow - Alert-based workflow engine that automates business processes through task and approval tools and automated control management, as well as having the ability to seamlessly integrate with third-party software and database systems.
Price Connect 8.1 - Provides a standard interface to market prices from different data providers. This is a one way import of data from the market provider to Allegro to be used for pricing data.
Exchange Connect - Provides a standard interface to electronic trading exchanges to allow the submission and receipt of bid and offer data while allowing for execution and confirmation of transactions through the exchange. The interface is bilateral allowing for straight through processing of transactions from and to the exchange directly from the Allegro environment.
NETA Connect 8.0 - Allows market participants to interface with the NETA market system. The interface is bilateral allowing both submission and retrieval of volume, transaction status , forward positions and periodic reports.

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Optimal Software Components for Power Transmission