Hitachi Energy occupy an interesting position as a vendor from our perspective as analysts. In earlier versions of our published book on CTRM software, we highlighted the asset heavy side of the industry as in need of a software toolset that was a tad different to merchants, traders and so on. With the energy transition, our observation is even more relevant now than it was back when we wrote that book and Hitachi Energy are targeting that very niche. These days of course, many of those assets can be distributed and smaller-scale renewables or storage but owners of these assets require more than just a trade management solution. According to Hugo Stappers at Hitachi Energy, their requirements are best met by an Energy Portfolio Management solution or EPM as he recently defined in a LinkedIn article. “Our EPM vision is resonating well in the industry,” he recently told me. “Not everything can be done in an ETRM, you need things like modelling, forecasting, optimizing and so on, yet all of these solutions had better work together seamlessly.” Hitachi Energy is active in all regions and is seeing success with its approach. For example, it recently signed Contact Energy where Contact… continue reading