A Polish energy producer and retailer has several power plants and a large customer base with extensive B2B, residential and industrial outreach.

A German electricity producer sells its production of energy in both the futures market and the pool.

A Swiss-Italian retailer buys energy from the electricity markets (pool and futures) for selling it afterwards to consumers or other retailers at a fixed price.

A German car manufacturer has energy-intensive assembling facilities. They own a power production unit and have access to forward contracts, bilateral contracts and the pool market.

A U.S. refinery processes crude oil into distillates and uses internal optimization to decide on the level of output for each refined product.

A Swiss-based international commodity trading company has a large portfolio of physical commodity positions. In order to keep risk under control, traders and senior management need to be notified when a logistical disruption occurs during the transportation of the commodity.

A London based hedge fund manager dynamically allocates assets in different commodity indices. The investment size changes monthly depending on the corresponding risk and return.

A Swiss-based capital management firm has several portfolios which in turn have thousands of securities each. Their dynamic portfolio allocation is subject to frequent re-balancing.

A U.K. based hedge fund employs different trading strategies and would like to check the effect of changing key parameters on the trading results.

A Dutch power retailer hedges its sales commitments in the forwards market, based on its sales channels estimation.