Marketing and Sales

Whether you’re an electric utility, municipality, cooperative, industrial company, manufacturing business, or institution, you need clean, safe, reliable, and affordable power. To achieve that goal, you face some tough challenges in today’s energy market. You must reduce energy costs yet increase power reliability. You must eliminate power shortages, outages, and downtime. You need to offer a safe and environmentally conservative solution. And, at the same time, you must have the flexibility to meet your customers’ unique energy needs, while achieving your own financial objectives. Calpine Marketing and Sales understands these issues, and offers energy solutions tailored to meet your needs.

Consumable Products

Recognizing that one size doesn’t fit all requirements, we offer highly tailored Wholesale Energy Products. Depending on your requirements, we can partner with you to provide wholesale electricity that satisfies baseload, variable, intermediate, and peak power requirements. Equally important, backed by our physical assets, Calpine has the expertise to structure financing approaches that best meet your needs. Our solutions will help reduce your risk and meet your cash-flow requirements. If “green” energy suits your needs, we can provide you with Renewable Energy Products, including renewable energy credits.

Services for New Projects

Since Calpine is already established in most markets, you can leverage our existing information technology systems to support your market interfaces, provide round-the-clock scheduling, and optimize your response to peaks in power demand.

Best of all, because we operate power plants, we can offer you everything from standard products to sophisticated customized contracts—both physical and financial options with terms and conditions that are best for your needs. From swaps to exotics, and from index-based pricing to fixed-rate financial options that stabilize your future energy costs and minimize your risk, we can help analyze and assess the best approach for you. As an example, we can help you lock in a floor and ceiling on pricing so risk is contained. We can tie these offerings to a specific plant, or to what we call a “virtual plant.”

A Calpine Virtual Plant—comprising a portfolio of plants—gives you all of the advantages of owning and operating your own plant, without the disadvantages. You forgo the capital requirements of what often amounts to investing in a 30-year asset. Further, because of our diversity of location, you avoid the threat of outages, as well as reduce other operational or environmental risks. The benefits? The lower minimum operating limits mean you can purchase just the capacity you need. They also stabilize costs with a guaranteed heat rate. Bottom line, you achieve economies of scale that will lower your operating and overhead costs per megawatt hour.

Services for Existing Projects

Energy Management Services: Calpine provides operational excellence in the physical liquidation and financial optimization of your energy assets. Our established infrastructure of people, processes, and systems has made Calpine a leader in the merchant energy services industry. Our products and services include commodity investment optimization, gas aggregation and arbitrage, logistics and settlement, risk management, and energy management consulting.