Who we are
The Energy Alert Team
With over 40 years of energy market and trading expertise gained working for and consulting with many of Europe's largest energy suppliers and consumers, Energy Alert offers a unique combination of risk management, energy market and information technology solutions to meet your need for real time management of your budget exposure to the highly fragmented, illiquid and volatile energy and emissions forward and futures markets. We don't do anything else, period. We don't place contracts, execute trades or provide "market forecasts" or "tips" or have any commercial relationships with energy suppliers or traders other than licensing our software. We provide one thing only, state of the art real time risk management and position reporting for commercial buyers. As such we are always independent and always working only for your interests. We hold no positions of our own in the markets in which we operate risk management services.
Mike Coulten
Energy Alert Limited was founded by Mike Coulten in 2005 to provide a professional, cost effective and best practice risk management solution for efficiently and effectively implementing flexible utility procurement strategies. Mike has worked for UK procurement consultants, gas and electricity suppliers (both up and downstream), energy consultants and energy traders in a twenty three year career spanning most European energy markets. Previous employers include Arthur Andersen, London and Southern Electricity, Electricite de France Trading (EDF Trading), Caminus and EIC (Energy Information Centre Ltd.) With extensive trading and risk management experience in UK gas and power markets Mike has guided many large UK consumers to significantly improved utility procurement performance.
Dr Tristram Scott
As a specialist in quantitative energy risk management, Tristram worked with Mike on the technical development of the ALERT application. Tristram has over 15 years experience in the energy sector, primarily in the downstream gas and power sectors. In addition to his time at the market-leading consultancy Caminus, where he met Mike as a fellow consultant, Tristram has also successfully developed and marketed his own suite of Quantitative Energy Models, built as MATLAB applications.
Dan Watkins
Dan has a background in business development, having worked in multiple professional service industries. After studying economics at Cambridge University, he started his career at accountants Arthur Andersen, before moving into business development for IT and energy consultancies. For 5 years Dan worked at Global Insight (now IHS Global Insight) as the Head of Energy Business Development - UK and Scandinavia. Here he was responsible for successfully launching the company's European Fuel & Power Price Forecasting Service, CO2 Price Outlook and Price Forecasting Service for Industrial Buyers. As such, Dan has supported a wide range of customers including energy producers and suppliers , large energy buyers and government agencies and regulators.
Dr Nick Perry
Nick has 30 years experience working in the European energy markets, advising energy producers, suppliers and buyers on approaches to energy contracting and risk management. His industry experience includes 20 years at Amoco and Enron, with the past decade spent working as a consultant. In addition to supporting a wide range of industrial energy buyers on their UK and European purchasing strategies, Nick has advised government departments and energy regulators, including his 2005 study for the Department of Industry on the UK gas forward market Nick worked with Mike, Tristram and Dan during his time spent working with energy market consultancies Caminus and Global Insight.