Microsoft transfers risk of power prices that vary with the wind

by Brian Eckhouse, Bloomberg

Microsoft Corp. has helped develop a way to protect corporate buyers of clean power from electricity prices that go up and down with the weather.

The company is using a risk-management tool called a volume-firming agreement for almost 500 megawatts of wind projects, according to a blog post Tuesday. The contracts with the insurance giant Allianz SE reallocate weather-related risk away from corporate buyers of power.

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