Power Customised energy solutions

Axpo offers a wide range of products and services customised to your energy needs.

While energy management presents major challenges for all market participants, Axpo offers a wide range of products and services tailored to meet your electricity needs. Customers benefit from Axpo's proven experience in energy optimisation, risk management and market analysis, as well as our Europe-wide presence. Your organisation’s consumption behaviour, appetite for price and quantity related risk, even the time available to spend on your project, can all influence the choice of procurement model. Axpo customers benefit from our comprehensive product portfolio, which offers both standard products and tailored energy solutions optimised to best manage your risk.

Standard products are suitable for clients or counterparties, such as energy supply companies, large industrial customers, and trading houses, that operate a structured electricity procurement system, have relevant expertise, and are active in energy trading.

Axpo customers and counterparties benefit from Axpo's direct access to 14 marketplaces, including stock exchanges and brokers.

All liquid traded baseload and peak electricity products – typically up to three front years in Switzerland and five in Germany – can be procured back-to-back through Axpo. For longer delivery periods, please contact us.

Axpo recommends that an appropriate framework agreement is drafted for the procurement of wholesale products. 

Price hedging over the entire delivery period is usually from one to four years.

• Small to medium-sized industrial companies 
• Customers who need planning security (made possible through a fixed price) 
• Customers with limited resources to deal with electricity procurement; our model requires minimal input from the customer 

• Electricity costs depend solely on how much energy is actually delivered; this is known as consumption-adjusted full supply

• Price risk remains with Axpo (from changing wholesale prices) 
• Volume/profile risk in the event of over- or under-stocking remains with Axpo 
• Balancing energy risks and costs is covered by Axpo 
• Costs for forecast generation are covered by Axpo

Particularly suitable for customers who like to be close to the market, have the resources to monitor it, and wish to profit from market fluctuations. This includes:

• Risk minimisation through the procurement of standard products on the market
• Base and peak products with different delivery periods, using tailored solutions such as options, power purchase agreements (PPAs) and indexed products
• Hedged quantities that can still be adjusted before delivery
• The difference between purchased forward products and actual consumption (residual quantity) is covered at the spot price (hourly electricity price)
• The energy price is the average price of all forward products, typically supplemented by a tolerance band
• Costs for short-term forecast generation covered by Axpo
• Balancing energy costs covered by Axpo (balancing energy is the difference between the short-term forecast and actual consumption)

• want to achieve an electricity price close to the market price. The price risk is minimised through several purchase points
• want to profit from positive market fluctuations. The purchase points are determined by the customer
• want to benefit from Axpo's know-how. We support customers with market reports and analyses, while the customer makes the decisions on procurement strategy and the purchase of tranches
• want planning security before delivery. The customer procures all tranches from Axpo before delivery; the energy price is calculated as an average

• The tranche price depends on market prices at the time of procurement
• The number of tranches depends on the amount of energy to be procured
• Market-aligned electricity price
• The energy price is the average price of all tranches, typically supplemented by a tolerance band
• The long-term forecast must be updated annually by the customer (Axpo supports the preparation of the long-term forecast; the customer is responsible for the completeness and accuracy of all data required for the long-term forecast)
• The short-term forecast is prepared by Axpo
• Spot energy costs covered by Axpo (spot energy costs are the difference between the long-term and the short-term forecast)
• Balancing energy costs covered by Axpo (balancing energy is the difference between the short-term forecast and actual consumption)
• Multi-year contract terms available

At Axpo, customers benefit from our portfolio managers’ long-standing experience of the electricity market and our analysts’ expertise. Working with you, we develop a risk strategy that fits your precise needs, including: 

• Detailed market reports on the most important energy markets 
• Personal advice from our experts
• Regular workshops for strategy coordination 
• Consistent pursuit of the risk strategy 
• A customer portal with all important energy data 
• Access to the spot and futures market, with live OTC prices

The various energy requirements of your company can rarely be met by a standard product. We listen and work with you to develop a solution tailored to your needs:

• Analysis of your load profile and breakdown of risks

• Optimisation of different risks

• Combining a variety of products and services 

• Highly rated risk management