Arcadia solves energy market issues and challenges.

Today, the energy landscape is moving, pulsing and constantly evolving due to industry disruptions, technology shifts, changing regulations, and political headwinds. Arcadia Energy works closely with clients to navigate today’s complex and dynamic energy markets. We provide a wide range of consulting and advisory services, and deep technical expertise across the energy trading, fuel supply and generation sectors.

Our work is diverse. To electricity retailers, we’re sophisticated traders, protecting margins in markets that are more complex and volatile than ever before*. To hard working enterprises in remote locations, we’re a trusted fuel supplier, delivering the right quantities to meet demand, on time, every time. To renewable energy generators, we’re the goto, get stuff done consultancy for reducing the risks of their project developments. Whatever the brief, whoever the client, Arcadia Energy’s reputation is for one thing: we solve problems in energy, bringing transformative outcomes to some of the market’s toughest challenges.

You’ll find Arcadia is a solutions centre. We work out what works. We connect dots. Locate paths. Rally cohorts. Define destinations. We revise, revisit and reinvent. We do whatever it takes to answer your most critical commercial goals. We call it Energy Solved.

*Arcadia Energy Trading Pty Ltd (ACN  121803638) holds AFSL 309188 which allows it to provide financial services to wholesale clients as defined by the Corporations Act 2001 s761G.

James Gillard

General Manager, Fuel Supply

James co-founded Arcadia Energy in 2007 following a 20-year career in the energy industry which spanned roles with international oil major BP and Queensland government-owned electricity generator and retailer Ergon Energy. His role at BP included senior commercial appointments in London and New York where his remit covered the full spectrum of the global oil business including operations, logistics, refining, and trading. When Ergon was formed in 1999, James was recruited to establish the company’s electricity trading business. As General Manager Trading, he was responsible for the risk management of a 20 TWh per annum retail electricity book and was a senior member of the commercial team that managed the $1.2 billion sale of the business to AGL in 2007.

At Arcadia, James is a chief custodian of Arcadia’s reputation for problem solving. He applies his wealth of petroleum markets experience to answer fuel storage and supply challenges for clients throughout Australia and the wider Pacific region, particularly those in remote locations.

In between establishing Arcadia’s fuel supply arm, James traded the first Certified Emissions Reduction unit deal for AGL’s Loy Yang Power Station in 2009 before forming Indonesian Joint Venture, AEK Simonggo Energy, in 2011 to build a hydropower project in North Sumatra. The 12MW Sei Wampu 1 Project will supply around 80,000MWh per annum when it comes online in 2019.

Qualifications

• Australian Financial Markets Association Accredited Dealer for Foreign Exchange
• Australian Financial Markets Association Diploma of Financial Services – Foreign Exchange
• Australian Financial Markets Association Diploma of Financial Services – Electricity Specialist
• Responsible Manager under Arcadia Australian Financial Services Licence
• Leadership Foundations – Mt Eliza Business School
• University of London, Bachelor of Arts, Medieval and Modern History

Patrick Weir

General Manager, Energy Trading

Patrick has been involved in the Australian electricity industry since deregulation in 1998. With a lending and broking background, he has brought the banking disciplines and wholesale FX market experience into the realm of electricity markets. Having nine years managing retail pricing and risk, he is well aware of the multitude of challenges faced by electricity retail businesses. Understanding such challenges has seen him develop products that assist retailers and large end users in:

• Hedging “vanilla” exposure to electricity spot price;
• Managing load flex challenges
• Hedging “non- vanilla” half hour exposure
• Cash flow sensitive hedging strategies;
• Appropriate transfer pricing (shape) methodology
• Connecting transfer pricing to the wholesale market prices
• Managing AEMO prudential obligations
• Measuring, managing, and reporting risk positions in electricity.

Since 2007, Patrick has managed Arcadia Energy’s Electricity Trading business in the role of Manager Electricity Trading. As the renewable energy revolution has built momentum, Arcadia has been finding solutions to the challenges faced by the renewable industry. These include:

• assisting with the management renewable generation firm/non-firm risk;
• providing opinion and education on the Australian wholesale energy market;
• providing opportunities and pathways to monetise renewable generation via the wholesale market place; and
• providing reporting structures, in both front and middle office, that ensures market risk is reduced and reported consistently.

Qualifications

• Australian Financial Markets Association accredited dealer
• Responsible Manager under Arcadia Australian Financial Services Licence
• James Cook University, Bachelor of Commerce

Anthony Rohan

General Manager, Generation

Anthony started his career in the agricultural commodities sector before transferring his risk management knowledge to the Australian electricity market when it first deregulated in 1998. As Manager of Contestable Business Trading with the Queensland government-owned electricity generator and retailer, Ergon Energy, he managed the largest contestable electricity portfolio in the National Electricity Market for close to a decade. The close working relationships he developed with customers helped him to develop new financial and risk products which are still widely used today.

At Arcadia, which he co-founded in 2007, Anthony has again drawn on his deep and wide understanding of commodity markets to develop products and services for clients participating in emerging renewable markets in Australia as well as the wider Asia Pacific region. He has supported over 2500 megawatts of proposed power for solar, wind, hydro, and biomass projects. His ability to solve challenges, navigate complex regulatory environments, reduce financial risk, minimise delays, save money and to simply get the job done has helped him to become a trusted business partner for numerous electricity retailers, generators, and large market end-users.

Qualifications

• Australian Financial Markets Association Accredited Dealer for Foreign Exchange
• Australian Financial Markets Association Diploma of Financial Services – Foreign Exchange
• Australian Financial Markets Association Diploma of Financial Services – Electricity Specialist
• Responsible Manager under Arcadia Australian Financial Services Licence
• Leadership Foundations – Mt Eliza Business School