The News and Observer had a fascinating article today on how Progress Energy trades energy. John Murawski got a glimpse of Progress’s trading department in action as it negotiated electricity transactions worth millions of dollars.
It reminded me of my consulting gig with Weather Predict, a commercial weather forecasting company based in Raleigh. Weather Predict has a number of electric utilities as customers: customers for whom a one degree rise or fall in temperature equates to millions of dollars in fuel costs or savings.
I’ve often wondered how those customers used that information and now I know.