FAQs
Frequently asked questions
The most common questions about active merchant management and our services.
What is active merchant management? +
A strategy for the proactive, responsible and professional management of the income and expenditure of unsubsidized renewable installations.
Why is it important to manage merchant plants differently? +
Without subsidies it is essential to reduce volatility and costs and to capture value: closing price hedges to avoid bearish scenarios, optimizing representation contracts, exporting and selling guarantees of origin, participating in balancing services and closing hedges with off-takers, all to improve profitability.
Who is Optimize Energy suitable for? +
Investment funds, IPPs and private investors with renewable assets in operation. Optimize Energy currently operates in Spain, Portugal, Italy and Sweden, with a roadmap to expand into additional European markets.
What does Optimize Energy take care of? +
Initial training; market information; trading-desk access; energy-management strategy definition; analysis of hedging recommendations; hedging and collateral management; export and sale of guarantees of origin; PPA alternatives; representation-contract negotiation; day-ahead, intraday and ancillary-services strategy; and quarterly reporting.
What are the risks of delegating the management of my merchant plants? +
There is no risk in professionalizing energy management: the existing risk relates to not doing it. Optimize always consults decision-making with its client.
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