Steve Kelly has put together a short article on our on-going work around S&P's evolving capital adequacy methods. Click on preview to read the one pager.....

The CCRO is bringing together a ‘blue-ribbon’ panel to draft and publish much needed standards & best practices related to credit across short term power markets. The general view of the CCRO is that currently inconsistent settlement and other credit risk requirements across RTO’s are impeding market developments that would strengthen market health and promote more....

Members discussed their concerns about a recent development affecting the use of NGI and NGX indexes for transactions and clearing them through NYMEX Clearport.
Members are concerned about the loss of competitive clearing service offerings, potential impact on hedging effectiveness, contract changes

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We have been asked by several energy companies in Europe and our associate member, Accenture, to consider bringing a CCRO-like organization to Europe’s energy industry. As different as markets & regulations may be, risk related issues and many best practices certainly do transcend geography. What’s more, CCRO organizational methods and resources offer a big head-start more...

The CCRO and Mike Gill (Crowell & Moring) are planning to arrange a series of meetings between Bob Anderson and congressional staffers. The goal is simply to introduce them to the CCRO and its unique role as an energy industry resource Because we are comprised of many industry segments from different sides of issues, we are a unique feature of our industry - which many energy companies know about - but newcomers to congress may not. More....