Know your position. Prove your compliance.
FuelFWD gives the desk a live view of the book: long and short per delivery month with forwards included, margin per deal, and the gap between contractual position and physical cover always visible. Every line is backed by validated Proofs of Sustainability, so the position the trader sees is the position the auditor confirms.
The gap
What the desk needs vs. what spreadsheets deliver
Positions move on trade date. Documentation follows weeks later.
A renewable fuels desk books forwards long before any PoS exists: the Proof of Sustainability typically arrives up to 30 days after the delivery month. The real position therefore lives in two layers, what you have contracted, and what is physically covered by documentation, and the desk needs both, per delivery month, at any moment. Most operators only see this picture after back office finishes reconciling. FuelFWD keeps it live: deals count from trade date, PoS attach to deals as deliveries the moment they arrive, and the report splits paper from physical cover.
- Long/short per delivery month, forwards included
- Contractual position vs. physical PoS cover, split on status
- Margin per deal and weighted purchase price from allocation
- Remaining quantity per PoS, drawn down by every allocation
- Quarterly roll-over with carry positions per PoS
- Multi-product, multi-entity: liquids and gaseous in one book
Why position tracking fails in spreadsheets
- The forward book lives in the trading sheet, the PoS register in the compliance sheet, and nobody reconciles them until month-end.
- Remaining volume per PoS is a formula over a growing allocation tab, and one manual edit breaks it silently.
- Margin per deal requires the weighted purchase price of the allocated PoS, which no spreadsheet tracks per allocation.
- A short position only becomes visible when back office finishes reconciling, weeks after the trades that caused it.
- Roll-over at quarter end is a copy-paste exercise, and carry positions lose their link to the source documents.
How FuelFWD runs your book
Three capabilities that make the position a live screen instead of a month-end report.
Booked on trade date
Purchases and sales enter the position the moment the desk books them, manually in seconds or extracted from a deal ticket. Status tracks the lifecycle: forward, confirmed, PoS received, settled.
Deliveries attach as PoS arrive
Incoming PoS are extracted, validated and linked to their deal as the delivery. The report shows exactly which positions are physically covered and which are still paper.
Margin and GHG value on every line
Weighted purchase price follows the allocation, margin per deal follows automatically, and the GHG/CI optimizer proposes the allocation that meets each customer’s requirement without giving value away.
Questions about position and portfolio management
- Yes. Deals count in the position from trade date. The PoS arrives later and attaches to the deal as the delivery. The report splits contractual position from physical cover, which is exactly the gap a desk wants to watch.
- Yes. The optimizer shows delivered GHG, weighted purchase price and margin per scenario before you allocate. The commercial decision and the compliance decision are the same screen.
- No. FuelFWD is the sustainability position and documentation layer. Deal data can flow in from your ETRM via API, and positions and documents flow back out.
- This page covers the fuel book: volumes, GHG value and margin. Compliance tickets earned per channel and country are tracked in the Certificate Positions use case, on the same underlying data.
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See your book in FuelFWD
30 minutes, no slides. We run a live book: forward positions, a short to cover, a GHG-optimized allocation, and the audit export at the end.