About e-regio
e-regio is a regionally operating energy utility that offers sustainable electricity, gas and water solutions in 19 municipalities. The company is a key driver of the ‘Energiewende’ in the region between the river Rhine and the Eifel and supplies residential and commercial customers with renewable electricity from its own PV and wind farms. Florian Wühr, Head of Portfolio Management & Balancing Group Management, and his six-person team use the digital OTC trading platform enmacc and Fidectus post-trading solutions for their energy trading activities.
Energy procurement with enmacc
“enmacc is a key tool for us in our daily operations. My team and I use enmacc every day, handling 98% of our forward contracts through the marketplace. This includes standard trading products for natural gas and electricity, as well as monthly and hourly schedules, and more recently, Guarantees of Origin (GoOs),” Wühr explains.
“enmacc makes market access easy and transparent for us, which is extremely important. The platform is very user-friendly, the results are impressive, and it saves us a significant amount of time. We have many trading partners on the platform and achieve very competitive terms,” says Wühr.
“As an energy provider that conducts structured procurement independently, enmacc is indispensable for us. Managing daily tenders for various products with 15 trading partners manually would be impossible, especially when it comes to tracking and price comparisons,” Wühr emphasises.
“One of our main priorities is keeping our processes lean. High trading frequency, automation, and traceability are crucial for us. enmacc and Fidectus play a critical role here, especially in automating and digitising our processes,” says Wühr.
A future-proof IT infrastructure
“enmacc and Fidectus also fit perfectly into our future system landscape. We are currently working on a completely new IT infrastructure for our department to ensure we are future-ready. Going forward, we want to focus less on transaction processing and more on analysis and portfolio management,” Wühr explains.
To fully automate the deal process end-to-end, e-regio has chosen enmacc’s API and integration to Fidectus.
“Our goal is to automate the entire deal lifecycle as much as possible. The entire process – from trading on enmacc, whether buying or selling, to integrating deals into our systems, through to confirmation matching (incl. eCM), and automated invoice and netting processing via Fidectus – will be managed through our IT systems. This is a key building block for our future operations,” says Wühr.
