Risk Measurement Methods

Market risk is a complex subject with multiple dimensions and implications for electricity business activity. Analytical risk measures such as traditional Greek measures or high-order and cross-sensitivities allow us to control in detail market risk, but sometimes these analytical risk measures are too technical to be understood by non-technical staff or by management. Hence, it is necessary to make a synthesis of the information contained in analytical measures into a more intelligible form. The natural way of creating such a type of risk measure is of course that of assessing the impact of risky events in monetary terms, because non-technical people are also capable of understanding the meaning of a potential monetary (or economic) loss.