Use case 1

First use case is Renewable Energy Producer who decides to stop using the services of an aggregator for all or part of its energy production sales.

For that he needs to become Balance Responsible Party and have access to the energy markets. He also needs an energy portfolio management software monitor and balance its portfolio on a real time basis.

Using our Xtra Energy Portfolio Management software, this producer benefits from all necessary BRP and market member functionalities.

He also benefits from a fully automated workflow that calculates its portfolio real time position at any time. Production is automatically sold on the day-ahead energy market and portfolio balanced on the intraday energy markets. For that we offer connectivity to power exchange platforms, algotrading platforms and market access third parties. Assets will also automatically get market based signals to make sure they follow the expected schedule.

Finally, he also benefits from comprehensive dashboarding and reporting functionalities for management, operations and finance.

Use case 2

As an alternative, we have a Renewable Energy Producer selling its energy production using the services of an aggregator. The main point was to be able to monitor and benchmark the aggregator service and performance.

Modeling its production sites and their technical characteristics in our solution, this producer has the possibility to recalculate all settlement information related to its aggregator.

But more interestingly he also has the possibility to do shadow trading and see how he would have performed if he had been acting directly on the market, offering a good benchmark to the aggregator service.

Use case 3

Let’s now have a look at an Energy Supplier supplying its customers directly from the energy market (forward blocks, day-ahead and intraday) and also long term contract such as PPAs.

Using our Xtra Energy Portfolio Management software, this energy supplier models all its customers energy supply contracts. Any kind of standard and non standard contracts such as fixed price contracts, tariffs, spot contracts or block + spot contracts. On the supply side, he also models his PPAs and market hedges such as blocks.

On a daily basis this customer makes sure that its portfolio is physically balanced and handles related financial risks. Using a flexible book structure our customer also makes sure that he can follow the P&L customer by customer.

Through comprehensive dashboarding and reporting functionalities this energy supplier monitors its energy portfolio from both a physical and a financial point of view and get all necessary data calculated for invoicing and settlement.

Use case 4

Let’s see how our Xtra platform helps an Industrial handling all or part of its supply directly from the market and/or PPAs.

This customers needs to keep track of the balance of its energy portfolio and make sure that he takes the right hedging decision at any time.

On a daily basis, our Xtra Energy Portfolio Management software offers a clear vision on consumption forecasts vs. market hedges, including energy from PPAs.

Through comprehensive dashboarding and reporting functionalities this industrial monitors its energy portfolio from both a physical and a financial point of view and get all necessary data calculated for invoicing and settlement.