Environmental Management Account
Who Should Read This? Senior business, operations and financial executives who manage environmental portfolios and need enterprise level market leading solutions to manage environmental assets and liabilities within the following sectors: Energy service providers (Utilities, municipalities, electric cooperatives) Wholesale and retail energy suppliers Environmental and renewable energy project originators and developers Corporate Social Responsibility and voluntary environmental initiatives Companies that emit Greenhouse Gases and are subject to regulation schemes Financial intermediaries What Problems Does the Environmental Management Account (EMA) Solve? Environmental markets are by nature very complex and, as a result, hard for people to navigate and manage. Environmental programs be they Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS), Carbon (voluntary or compliance), NOx or SO2 all have separate registries, rules and obligations, creating a complex matrix of demands for the executive charged with managing an environmental portfolio. Keeping track of all this is a tough challenge. In the absence of an EMA, a manager will have to keep abreast of any change to Registry rules, and in all probability, track on spreadsheets the many accounts across legal entities and hundreds of positions in their portfolio. These in turn need then to be reconciled and inserted into a company s accounting and risk management systems. Whether your company is a project developer, a trader or load-serving entity - managing and maintaining flawless execution of the actions and obligations required to meet specific environmental market requirements is a Herculean task. The Environmental Management Account makes this less daunting and a lot more manageable, allowing you, and your team, more time to focus on your core competencies. Portfolio Management Automated integration with underlying registries Tracking of tax lots and cost basis Single account view across all registry accounts for one or more legal entities Enter forecast/actual generation Assign forecast generation to liabilities Reconcile actual generation with registry issuance Spot Instrument Master Portfolio Management Generation -Issuance Forecast & Maintenance Forward Contracts & Futures Load Projections & Compliance Obligations
The Environmental Management Account - Intelligent Linking Knowing where to look and find the right information at the right time so the right action can be performed is an issue that faces everyone, whether or not you sit in the front, middle or back office. APX s Environmental Management Account provides a suite of solutions that allows its users to view and manage all of the actions, trades and obligations (current and historic) that companies now face as a result of the demands arising from the changes in Renewable Portfolio Standards and climate regulation and the complexities inherent in managing an ever-growing portfolio of environmental assets. The Environmental Management Account intelligently links the portfolio positions residing on environmental registries all the way through to a company s enterprise, accounting and risk management systems. This means a portfolio can be easily viewed, analyzed, reported and managed when and where necessary, by anyone in the firm with access to the same data set. With EMA, an executive can monitor and manage an entire REC or Carbon inventory within a single account structure. Who is APX? APX builds environmental markets. It is the leading infrastructure provider for environmental and energy markets in renewable energy and carbon commodities. APX business services include the APX Environmental Management Account, APX Registries services for renewable energy in the United States and voluntary carbon worldwide. APX is uniquely qualified to provide these services because APX tracks and manages more environmental assets than any other infrastructure provider. With more than 2 billion certificates under management and 1300 global firms as account holders, APX market infrastructure sets the standard for ensuring integrity in environmental markets. APX has grown into a leadership role over the last two decades through strong client support, proven infrastructure and reliable, cost-effective 24/7 operations in our APX Environmental Markets and APX Power Markets businesses. With over 100 years of cumulative experience within our diverse team of subject matter experts, APX clients can be assured of solutions and service designed with proven insight and deep experience of environmental markets.
What is the Environmental Management Account (EMA)? The Environmental Management Account is a comprehensive portfolio management platform with a unique account structure able to incorporate environmental commodities across multiple environmental regulatory regimes:. Consolidated Account View Portfolio Analytics Comprehensive Retirement Reports Consolidated Account View Common Project & Instrument Symbology Automated Integration with Registries Market Prices for Positions Portfolio Gain & Loss Tracking Replicate Actions Taken on Registry The figure above is a screen shot showing the structure of the Consolidated Account view. It shows how easy it is to see your overall position across registries and how it brings everything together so that you can manage everything at the click of a mouse.
Portfolio Management Gives a comprehensive market view of your full portfolio Intelligent Linking allows for single point of entry for counterparty transfer and retirement obligations Portfolio tracking and valuation including unrealized and realized profit and loss for all portfolio positions Advanced asset/liability management bringing together spot, forward and futures owned or contracted against compliance obligations Tracks generation and issuance forecasts and matches current and future assets against liabilities Gives the ability to track and manage your entire asset and liability positions across a full range of environmental commodities and associated obligations. This in turn creates a simplified and streamlined process to manage your environmental portfolios. Trading, Execution and Settlement Gives a comprehensive suite of tools for trading, execution, and settlement Integrated counterparty settlement and delivery Spot and Forward deal capture and trade entry The ability to create and manage forward sales and purchases and link delivery with each counterparty Pre and post trade analytics Trade date view of portfolio for traders Seamless execution and settlement Pending and completed trade analysis System Integration and Optimization EMA easily fits into your existing infrastructure: Intelligent Linking allows for easy Straight Through Processing, meeting the needs of your front, middle and back office EMA is a hosted solution allowing easy and efficient start up use Has the ability to integrate if required with other internal systems e.g. Enterprise Trading and Risk Management tools (ETRMs); or Enterprise Resource Planning tools (ERPs); Accounting Eliminates duplicate entries and data entry errors across multiple systems and multiple reconciliations Seamless execution and settlement Reduced operational overhead and efficient settlement processing
Reports and Notifications Account holders have customized notification and event tracking for all stages of the transaction lifecycle Customized reports and analytics Customized alerts and automated notifications for portfolio events Provides robust audit trail and reporting capabilities All users have access to the same unified data set based on their privileges. No stale data / update problems Highly efficient reporting structure providing information that aids decisions and timely alerts of events and transaction obligations. Security EMA has strict security protocols Highly secure access to accounts and data Gives the ability to customize data access and views via a robust entitlements system Audit trail is maintained at all times so all changes in the system are logged and detailed for point and click access Account holders can relax and feel secure in the knowledge that their data is safe and only those people with the right access can access the system and be given timely alerts of events and transaction obligations affecting their portfolio. What Does this Mean for You? The EMA account holders are able to focus on their core competency rather than worry about the consequences that result from system and process designs not tailored to the new demands of operating in the environmental markets. Managers of the EMA account can give multiple staff access across all geographies with specific access rights and alerts so all staff have access to the same information. Above all, EMA account holders can be confident they have the most insightfully designed, easy to use, cost effective and comprehensive tool to manage their environmental portfolio. What Next? For a demonstration of how the EMA s intelligent linking can help your business please call: Devon Walton on +1 201 748 7927 or email dwalton@apx.com Builds Environmental Markets 111 River Street, Suite 1204, Hoboken, NJ 07030 +1 201 222 1422 / www.apx.com 2014 APX, Inc..