New International Sales Manager at KYOS Recently Ewout Eijkelenboom joined KYOS in the capacity of International Sales Manager. He will focus on developing our business initiatives in the energy sector. Prior to KYOS, Ewout worked at Stogas, Brazil as Commercial Director. He was in charge of developing commercial activities for this underground natural gas facility…. Read more »
Bloomberg quoted KYOS: Blackstone reviving Dutch plant
Bloomberg quoted KYOS’ Cyriel de Jong in their article about Blackstone, published last Friday 7 July 2017. The investor group Blackstone bought bankrupt Dutch Rijnmond gas-fired electricity facility in 2016. According to “Het Financiele Dagblad they paid only €8 million for it – the estimated value was €600. Blackstone Does What RWE Can’t Do by Reviving Dutch Plant… Read more »
Looking back on seminar “Managing Commodities Effectively”
KPMG, Rabobank, KYOS organized a well-attended seminar on managing commodities. The audience appreciated the integrated approach of the various disciplines.
Closing of Coal-fired plants expensive and counterproductive
Emission rights and the impact on global warming According to the climate conscious backbone of Dutch political parties VVD, GroenLinks, D66 and CDA – parties that as we speak are conferring about forming a coalition-government – coal-fired electricity plants have to close as soon as possible. According to Cyriel de Jong, this is harmful populism…. Read more »
Flame 2017 presentation Power of Storage
Flame 2017: Natural Gas and LNG Conference As last year, the city of Amsterdam hosted Flame 2017, which took place from 8-11 May 2017. Flame is one of Europe’s leading natural gas and LNG conferences. It is the largest annual meeting of this organization. Normally this event has a good attendance, and also this year… Read more »
Presentation Energy Portfolio Optimization – Düsseldorf
Energy Portfolio Optimization & Electricity Price Forecasting Forum – Düsseldorf This conference on Energy Portfolio Optimization and Electricity Price forecasting was held in Düsseldorf, Germany on 5 and 6 April 2017. Over the course of these two days, 30 speakers shared their ideas and case studies on topics such as risk assessment, price forecasting, hedging strategies,… Read more »
Hedging and Portfolio Optimization Summit Presentation KYOS
Presentation KYOS on Evaluation of dynamic hedging strategies at Annual Intelligent Hedging and Portfolio Optimization Summit, Amsterdam 2017.
Enterprise Risk Management needs to be developed in utility companies
Two articles on Enterprise Risk Management from Energy Risk describing how ERM needs to be developed in the energy sector.
KYOS’ Presentation E-Mart 2017: How can conventional generation survive?
At Emart 2017, Cyriel de Jong from KYOS held a presentation in the session on Power Price Drivers: “How can conventional generation survive in Europe?” He showed how fundamental models help to forecast future power prices and power plant profitability.
EU legislation will boost financial trading in sugar
As a result of new EU legislation, the minimum sugar price will disappear. This means that floating contracts will replace traditional fixed price contracts.