Twenty-five years of energy markets experience, thirteen in solar.
F4 Markets - Creating the first "Pure" ESG-ETFs
Leveraging 25 Years of Energy Experience.
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What We Seek to create
Market Liquidity
For sellers and investors
Improved ACCESS
Digital only
Standard Transactions
Block bids in, ETFs out
Anonymity
Buyers and Sellers transact via Member Participant number, not name
Trading and Asset Management Activities Now
Owning Solar Assets
Minnesota-owned solar assets since 2014, six sites, 226 kW
Managing Client-owned assets
Connecticut, Massachusetts, 3.3 MW
Trading, Managing REC Portfolios
CT + MA (NEPOOL)
OMD = Origination, Markets and Data
Origination
Origination
Origination
We are focused on the acquisition of operating solar assets in the USA.
Markets
Origination
Origination
Solar markets and utility markets in the USA are fragmented and non-standard. We seek to rationalize the market structure and the assets themselves into standard packages.
Data
Origination
Data
We seek to create data sets and pricing, including indexes, to serve buyers, sellers, financial firms, asset owners. Having the right information leads to better decision making.
experience
Futures Exchanges
- Former Member, Minneapolis Grain Exchange, Chicago Board of Trade, Chicago Mercantile Exchange (IMM).
- Extensive clearing, margins and risk activity.
Energy Markets
- FERC Power Markets Entity (JPower, N/AES, MHP)
- MAPP, MISO, PJM, ISO-NE, ICE
Principal Focus
- Active as a Principal in energy-focused enterprises since 1995.
- Understanding of market development, emergence and flaws.
Capital demands
Significant Capital Deployment Opportunities
We see really large origination opportunities, significant volume growth and spread profits for the foreseeable future. Origination, market making and custody/clearing capital requirements - the ability to deploy large amounts of capital profitably - should be substantial.
PLATFORM Development
DIGITIZE - FUNDAMENTAL TO SCALING AND SECONDARY MARKET GROWTH
Critical to scaling cost-effectively is creating a digital-only platform. Our platform will make common, standardize, the buy side and the sell side, thus easing access to the benefits of a market for all.
Each market participant (MP) will access our bids, and the market, via API – an application programming interface – whereby they are coming in, effectively tokenized properly, to transact. By automating and standardizing, we can then more effectively manage a diverse and rapidly growing book of business. User counts can rise, the more API links we have the more we lead the market. An MP might only transact once, or multiple times. In either case, they come in the same way, via permissioned access and API.
exchanges, data, networks
Have evolved...
From utility-like trading centers to hubs of financial data and technology
For example...
We are in an age of information, awash in new data - getting and making sense of disparate, largely unavailable real-time data in secondary solar markets stands as a preeminent challenge for F4. As we seek out the structures, patterns and attributes of burgeoning, diverse data sets, we also seek to understand how the overall marketplace (network) structure gives rise to its dynamics. In doing so, we hope to understand and optimize the market for the benefit of society.
The Real Importance of Data
F4 is challenged to assemble, arbitrage and distribute data sets representing thousands of projects in the US.
We are further tasked, and have the opportunity...
to standardize the physical side into investor-friendly products, fully digitized, allowing us to scale....
With distributed, national markets we can arbitrage, provide forward curves and hedges
Growing market volumes and wide margins will further attract market participants to the F4 platform.