Energy Retailers

For energy retailers, securing energy in wholesale markets for sale to retail customers means working on razor thin margins. To compete, retailers must track positions accurately in real time and perform comprehensive risk management in a fully integrated environment. Allegro delivers these capabilities and more.

Energy retailers need advanced decision analytics and “forward focus” for market optimization that only Allegro delivers. Allegro’s proven modular architecture, native Web services and best-of-breed application modules combine to precisely fit each organization’s business requirements.

When buying commodities and having product delivered to end users, retailers using Allegro manage portfolios more effectively, evaluating opportunities and understanding positions at a glance to make quicker, more effective decisions.

Allegro supports the entire business process including comprehensive management of price, physical and credit risks. Users manage spot, term and evergreen contracts and use flexible pricing formulas, including discounts and premiums to spot index prices or other benchmarks.

Retailers use Allegro to capture associated product quality data and other adjustment factors — all of which become instantly available to risk management, accounting and other team members. Automation, messaging, reporting and alarms enable teams across the enterprise to collaborate with unprecedented efficiency.

Efficiency also comes from automated valuation and settlement of trades, with drag-and-drop scheduling for transport by rail, pipe, truck, barge or ship with all associated data and documentation. Allegro scheduling reflects any new trade in real time and, at the user’s option, optimizes transportation contracts and matches natural gas supply to current demand.

Because virtually all functions and data are integrated, energy retailers capture, track and manage commodities and manage associated risk in a single solution. Numerous advantages result. For example, accounting personnel can automatically perform complex calculations such as netbacks and prior period adjustments, closing out each month on time with unprecedented accuracy and full regulatory compliance including FAS 133.

For electric power, Allegro supports a full range of standard and custom power products and can support time increments for scheduling down to 15 minutes, with full capabilities to perform book outs and handle cuts.