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Energy price risk management

  Protect your business from price volatility and make your energy spend more predictable.

Energy price risk management

Protect your energy budget and plan with confidence—World Kinect’s energy consultants deliver expert energy risk management solutions.​

In today’s fast-moving energy markets, price volatility can significantly impact your bottom line. As energy spend is a major part of your operating costs, developing a robust energy price strategy is essential—but it’s also complex and time-consuming. 

That’s where World Kinect comes in. Our experienced energy consultants provide tailored energy risk management strategies as part of our broader energy procurement services. We help you navigate market uncertainty, optimize your approach, and align your energy procurement with your financial goals.​

Our collaborative process starts with understanding your business’s priorities. From there, we design a customized plan that reflects your budget, risk tolerance, and operational needs. Whether you're managing electricity, natural gas, or renewables, our team continuously monitor global markets to help you capitalize on opportunities.

With World Kinect’s support, you gain more than just energy procurement—you gain strategic energy management that delivers long-term value. Learn more about our energy risk management solutions or contact our energy consultants today to discuss your business’s needs.
 

Why energy price risk management?

Energy price risk management can ease the pressure on your energy budget and put you in better control of your total spend. Some of the financial and operational benefits of this approach include:

​​Gain predictability

​​Gain predictability

Enable a managed, controlled approach to energy spending with hedging strategies that help you better spread risk and gain budget certainty. 

See the big picture

See the big picture

Get a holistic view of your energy budget with expert, outsourced guidance and insights about global markets and trends.

Buy smarter

Buy smarter

Leverage continuous and informed insights and analysis based on emerging trends in the wholesale market.

Move faster

Move faster

Remove the complexities and burdens of managing energy price risks in-house.

Why World Kinect for energy price risk management?

When working with World Kinect, you benefit from:

  • Proven market experience. We have decades of expertise in implementing a managed risk approach with verified results.
  • Industry expertise. Our teams specialize in all major physical and financial energy markets, including hedging for natural gas, electricity, major carbon markets and liquid fuels.
  • Customer focus. We work collaboratively to give you flexible options that meet your business and budget objectives.
  • Supplier choice. We work with all major suppliers transparently and ethically.
  • Continuous improvement. We always seek a competitive edge to ensure our strategies are robust in every market condition.

Contact us today to discuss how we can help develop and execute your energy price risk strategy.

 

Energy price risk management offerings from World Kinect

We customize our solutions based on your risk tolerance and budget needs, typically using one or more of these instruments:

  • Forward hedging: Our portfolio managers will transact at opportune times to limit price spikes and optimize market trends.
  • Financial options: In some markets, we can purchase caps and collars to protect organizations against paying more than a set price.
  • Futures hedging: Less mature markets won’t accommodate an effective hedging strategy. In these markets, we implement energy swaps that allow for hedging on a derivative financial market.

Hedging contracts typically run for one to three years. We can structure our fees based on performance, a fixed price per transaction or a fixed price per time period. 

 

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Energy price risk management - FAQs

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