Green Tiger Markets (GTM) is introducing energy derivatives as a way to stabilize electricity costs in the Philippines, where prices on the Wholesale Electricity Spot Market (WESM) can swing from below PHP...
Since its 2006 launch, the Philippines’ Wholesale Electricity Spot Market (WESM) has been a key driver of competition in the power sector. Yet despite its success, prices remain vulnerable to sudden price...
By John Knorring, CEO of Green Tiger MarketsThe Philippines’ wind energy sector is gathering pace, and is expected to double by 2030. But, as developers harness the archipelago’s gusty promise, they must...
With electricity prices swinging wildly, forward contracts may be the key to predictable energy costs — and a more competitive economy. For decades, Filipino businesses have struggled with one of Southeast Asia’s...
John Knorring, CEO of Green Tiger Markets, explores how financial hedging tools like CFDs and forward contracts are helping the market ride the "duck curve" and stabilize revenues amid the solar surge
By Green Tiger Markets The Green Tiger Markets (GTM) team continues to build on successes. This past month, we passed over TEN MILLION HOURS worth of orders placed that were either matched...
By Green Tiger Markets Green Tiger Markets (GTM) launched the Philippines’ first exchange-based forward electricity market in 2023. Our initial premise surrounded offering financially settled Contracts for Difference (CFDs) on our own...
By Green Tiger Markets A cash-settled forward market brings transparency and stability to the Philippines’ electricity sector—if regulators voice their support Contracts that hedge, not haul The challenge of electricity markets is...
By Carlos KortenPresident, Green Tiger Markets In the Philippines, energy is not just a utility—it is the cost of everything. From the price of a sack of rice to the productivity of...
By Carlos KortenPresident, Green Tiger Markets May 16, 2025 Every year for the past three years, the Philippines has recorded negative electricity prices on Good Friday—a day characterized by extremely low demand....
