One of the biggest stories in European energy markets last year was the 200% jump in EU carbon allowances (EUAs), with prices rising from around €8/tonne to a peak of more than €25/tonne. The impact of the 2018 carbon surge on power plant generation economics was profound, pushing margins for many coal-burning plants into negative […]
Author: Dimitra Triantafyllidou, International Research Networks Ltd. (IRN) Interviewee: Waleed El-Ramly, Chief Growth Officer at ZE PowerGroup, on data management and energy trading companies. Data management: is it a paradox putting these two words next to each other in the first place? I don’t think the two words are a paradox at all. Management is […]
The Information Technology landscape has been transformative for many industries for the past five years, especially for the finance and commodity markets. For the Insurance and Reinsurance industry, IT infrastructure and data-driven decision-making tools need to catch up. Multiple factors, such as a rapidly expanding data universe, cloud, and distributed technologies, and highly granular and […]
ZEMA, enterprise data management solution for commodities and energy markets, can help control your data from collection to validation to integration and create a seamless environment throughout your organization. As the only independent grid operator in the western United States, the Californian ISO grants equal access to 26,000 circuit miles of transmission lines and coordinates […]
Amongst different currency pairs, the importance of Euro/USD has always been very critical in Forex trading. It is not only one of the most dynamically traded pairs but has also fetched a lot of attention for its liquid nature in the trading world. Due to a strong presence of large corporations, financial institutions in the […]
With the upcoming deregulation of the Mexican Power Markets, we are about to face yet another massive data challenge for market participants who are already struggling to keep up with the data volumes of every other market that they trade in. This dictates an urgency and need for extremely strong enterprise data management systems. ZEMA […]
Clients, Partners and friends…hope everyone reading this has recovered or is recovering from the recent one in two hundred year flooding event in Houston. As everyone knows, our industry has seen the worst drilling downturn since the 1980’s; by some measures it is also considered the worst oil bust ever. Enterprises are cutting back and […]
In this issue, the In Depth article by Serge Vinokour, ZE’s Director of Product Development, addressees concerns of Big Data collection processes. In most cases, analytical tools assume that the data is already collected, unified and stored in a database. BI systems are dealing with structured data, which is already prepared for the creative intellectual […]
In this issue, we are closing 2015 with the yearly review and endeavored predictions of the near future; this time however, we will look at the energy sector in conjunction with data business and software solutions. The energy sector has been facing probably some of the most difficult times ever. Each industry within this sector […]
The disclosure of NSA’s surveillance programs has shaken the trust of customers around the globe and undermined US Tech and European Privacy laws. Leading data storage providers have been left in a tough spot and they are scrambling for alternative means of privacy. One of the emerging challenge for today’s IT departments are not only […]