RWE Trading brochure 2007
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RWE Trading floors lack the nervous tension usually associated with the trading business. The professional calm that pervades results from three underlying factors: our people, our successful business model and our market positioning.
A team of experts
RWE Trading is one of the most important European energy commodity traders. It is a success story built on the skill and dedication of an entire workforce pulling together as a team.
Success in the dynamic and complex energy trading business would not be possible without professionals from a wide variety of disciplines. From risk management procedures to the impact of weather conditions on energy supply and demand, nothing is left to chance. Working together with our top-of-the-line traders on a minute-by-minute basis, these specialists help to anticipate market developments and ensure our success in the markets.
Organised in dedicated teams, RWE traders not only deal with commodities such as power, gas, coal and oil, we also actively trade physical and financial derivatives. When the energy markets expanded to include environmental certificates, we already had the specialists on hand. Committed to the concept of open and fair trade, we have been instrumental in the early success of this burgeoning market.
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Successful business model
Our business success is built on the dedicated experts that make up the RWE Trading team. A further building block is the successful business model that we have created. This unites the natural focus on obtaining the best potential value from the RWE Group’s physical assets with the benefits of financial (proprietary) trading.
RWE Trading has a natural function as the hub for all of the RWE Group’s tradable energy commodities. Our sister companies are among the largest upstream and downstream energy companies in Europe, concentrating on the generation and the subsequent sale of power to private and industrial consumers. Our trading expertise helps our sister companies to get the most out of the energy value chain.
In order to do that, we have to be clearly focused on the commodity markets for energy and its derivatives – and in financial derivatives as well. Proprietary trading helps us to better manage the risks of having open positions in each of our physical commodity markets. By combining asset trades with speculative trades we actively hedge risks, ensuring better planning and investment decisions for the RWE Group.
RWE Group intends the RWE Gas Midstream GmbH, founded January 2007, to further strengthen its competitiveness in the increasingly liberalized European gas market. RWE Gas Midstream will integrate the commercial optimization of the entire gas portfolio of the RWE Group, ranging from short to long-term procurement and supply commitments. RWE Trading and RWE Gas Midstream will cooperate closely with each other in the gas business. RWE Trading will continue to be an active trader at liquid gas trading points.