Behind The Screens

By integrating solar thermal panels and photovoltaic systems alongside their woodchip boiler, the district heating provider in the town of Grenaa, Denmark, has developed a versatile energy system that supports both their sustainability goals and reduces costs for their customers. Danske Commodities collaborates closely with the company, assisting in production planning and optimisation. In this episode, CEO of Grenaa Heating Plant Søren Gertsen and Senior Originator Jakob Krogshave Laursen provide insight into the process.

With the ability to transform renewable energy into other types of energy, such as hydrogen or methanol, Power-to-X plays an important role in providing the flexibility needed in our energy system to help the world succed with the green transition. In this episode, we visit Northern Europe's biggest Power-to-X plant in Denmark, the Kassø plant owned by European Energy, and talk to the plant's Asset Optimisation Engineer, Rolvur Reinert, and Danske Commodities' own Head of Flexible Asset Management, Jesper Vestergaard, about the complex task of optimising the plant's production.

The Brazilian energy markets are moving towards liberalisation, and at the same time, the country is set to reduce its carbon emissions by 50% by 2030. In this episode, Danske Commodities' Head of Brazil, Felipe Cabrelon, and Senior Originator Milena Urbani talk about the role that Danske Commodities plays in this double transition, how the Brazilian energy markets differ from the markets in Europe, and what the future of energy trading looks like in the South American country.

With the energy transition in the Asia-Pacific region, power markets move away from their dependency on oil, coal and gas, and that creates new opportunities for energy trading companies. On a line from our office in Singapore, we talk to the head of Danske Commodites' business in the APAC region, Andreas  Schwartz, about  the difference between energy trading in our core markets in Europe and trading in APAC and how he views the future of the power markets in APAC. And we also get the more personal story of how he relocated from Denmark to Singapore with his family, and what he has learned from that experience.

Danske Commodities entered the US energy markets in 2019, and since then the US business has grown significantly. But what makes the US markets so attractive for a European energy trading company like Danske Commodities? How does trading in the US differ from trading in Europe? And what are the long-term plans for Danske Commodities in the US? Find out in this episode, where our guests are Thor Kalstrup, Head of US, and Anders Damm, Head of US Short Term Power Trading.