Solutions

Energy Products

From weather exposure to financial product on one platform.

Weather is embedded in the economics of energy. Temperature influences electricity demand and natural gas consumption. Wind and solar conditions determine renewable generation. Precipitation and snowpack affect hydropower. Weather can influence price, volume, generation, revenue, and margin—often simultaneously.

Energy companies have managed these exposures for decades through derivatives, structured products, hedging strategies, and other financial instruments. The analytical and operational work surrounding those transactions, however, can remain fragmented across weather data, models, spreadsheets, pricing tools, index providers, counterparties, and settlement processes.

ClimateDelta brings that work into a common operating environment.

An energy participant can identify an exposure, analyze its relationship to weather, evaluate historical outcomes, structure a financial product, underwrite and price the risk, execute the transaction, monitor the position, determine settlement, and understand the resulting exposure within a broader portfolio.

Build the Product Around the Exposure

Energy weather risk rarely fits a single standardized structure. The financial exposure may depend upon temperature, wind, precipitation, generation, demand, commodity price, or relationships among several variables.

ClimateDelta provides the analytical environment for designing a product around the economics of the underlying exposure.

A user can move from a question—How does weather affect the financial or physical variable I need to hedge?—to the analysis required to structure a response. Historical weather, indices, financial variables, models, and exposure information can be brought together to test structures and understand how they would have performed across different conditions.

The resulting solution may be a weather derivative, index-based hedge, structured product, quanto, or another financial structure appropriate to the exposure.

One Workflow Across the Product Lifecycle
IDENTIFY EXPOSUREDefine the financial or physical variable affected by weather.
ANALYZEQuantify the relationship between weather and the underlying exposure.
STRUCTUREDesign the derivative, hedge, quanto, index structure, or other financial product.
UNDERWRITE & PRICEEvaluate the risk and determine the economics of assuming or transferring it.
EXECUTEMove the approved structure into a transaction.
MONITORTrack weather conditions, positions, and exposure during the contract period.
SETTLEDetermine the financial outcome according to the contractual structure.
MANAGE PORTFOLIOUnderstand individual transactions within the broader portfolio of weather and financial exposures.

The value comes from continuity. The weather intelligence used to identify the exposure remains connected to the analysis used to structure the product. The structure remains connected to underwriting and pricing. The completed transaction remains connected to monitoring, settlement, and portfolio management.

ClimateDelta becomes the System of Record for the weather risk throughout its lifecycle.

Access an Expanding Product Environment

ClimateDelta can support proprietary products alongside third-party indices and benchmarks integrated into the platform. This gives users access to different sources of weather intelligence and product structures while maintaining a common analytical and operating environment.

As additional indices, models, data sources, geographies, and product structures are added, the range of exposures that can be analyzed and managed through ClimateDelta expands with them.

The result is more than another weather model or pricing tool. It is an operating platform for managing the lifecycle of Energy weather risk.

Identify the exposure. Structure the product. Manage the risk.