Utilities
Economic viability is a balancing act for natural gas and power utilities, power producers and municipals. These businesses face financial risk and operational challenges stemming from price volatilities, logistics, weather, demand spikes and dips, counterparty credit exposures and razor-thin margins. Threats also loom with deregulation, re-regulation and actual or potential new competitors.
Conditions like these make it crucial to understand demand, manage risk and conduct operations with maximum efficiency. Allegro solutions address all these challenges and more.
Full integration. Allegro’s unique modular architecture and native Web services help ensure that complete, integrated information and real-time market data support every decision. Modules readily “mix and match,” integrating in any combination to support virtually every business need.
Multiple commodities. Users capture, track and manage every traded energy commodity and perform comprehensive risk management in a single, integrated solution. Multiple commodities are fully supported, so users can manage even the most complex generation fuel supply.
Comprehensive solutions. Allegro customers capture and maintain load profiles and manage counterparty credit, with full credit limit capabilities and alarms. Hedging and trading are fully supported in virtually all energy- and weather-related derivatives and other instruments.
End-to-end business processes. Users manage virtually every business aspect, from contracts through trading, position keeping and scheduling, to settlement and invoicing. Thus Allegro customers manage long term contracts, renew or negotiate new supply contracts on a timely basis and manage positions by any time period.
Applications provide numerous commodity-specific features and business capabilities, such as:
- Gas. Utilities and LDCs perform contract management, purchasing,
pricing and position management.
- Electric. Full range of standard and custom power products:
term, spot and evergreen contracts; time increments for scheduling down
to 15 minutes; and book outs and cuts. Flexible pricing formulas include
discounts and premiums to spot index prices or other benchmarks.
- Coal. Capabilities include marine, rail and truck distribution plus valuation and risk management, settlement and integrated accounting.
Learn how Allegro solutions deliver value to organizations such as Natural Gas Utilities, Power Utilities, Power Generators and Municipals. Or click here to view configuration examples.
