Bei Rückfragen: Lothar Lambertz Pressestelle RWE AGT +49 201 12-23984M +49 162 2845484E lothar.lambertz@rwe.com RWE AG Die neue RWE liefert mit ihren vier operativen Gesellschaften RWE Renewables, RWE Generation, RWE Power und RWE Supply & Trading und einem Portfolio von rund 43 Gigawatt Erzeugungsleistung sauberen, sicheren und bezahlbaren Strom. After building mature markets in Europe and the U.S., they have their sights on the third-biggest economy, which is taking shape the way European trading did 20 years ago.While western markets are increasingly dominated by renewable energy and shrinking profit margins, the potential for price volatility and arbitrage in Japan are a trader’s dream: It has four distinct seasons, a growing supply of intermittent renewables, an uncertain future for its massive nuclear fleet and two separate grids, not to mention a heavy reliance on imports of natural gas, which many of the new entrants already trade.“I’m confident Japan will be the next big market,” said Steffen Riediger, a director at European Energy Exchange AG, which launched a service to clear futures trades in May. It operates through five segments: Lignite & Nuclear; European Power; Supply & Trading; Innogy  Continuing Operations; and Operations acquired from E.ON.
Swedish utility Vattenfall AB plans to hire a futures trader for its German trading office, while RWE has established a subsidiary in Tokyo. Search. With benchmark prices for coal-fired power already in negative territory right now, don’t be surprised to see the entire industry shuttered by the middle of the decade.To understand why, it’s worth considering that Germany’s main coal-fired utilities RWE AG, Uniper SE and Lausitz Energie Kraftwerk AG aren’t so much operators of industrial plants as commodity brokers trading the spread between processed and … Mail; News; Sport; Finance; Celebrity ; Style; Weather; Answers; Mobile; Messenger; More; Yahoo. From there, the German company plans to be active in the physical and financial trading.RWE has been talking to regulators and exchanges since the market fully liberalized in 2016, said Peter Krembel, chief commercial officer at RWE’s trading unit.“We are already involved in trading fuels into Japan, so we are familiar with the fuel component for the power generation, and it would be very complimentary to trade electricity,” he said. (RWE.DE).