Company Overview

Spectron Environmental is a dedicated global brokerage for environmental products. A winner of numerous awards – including two Gold Awards for Excellence in Emission Markets from Energy Business and the 2008 US Emissions House of the Year Award from Energy Risk magazine – it is owned by Spectron Group, operator of the global wholesale marketplace for energy.  

Spectron has been actively involved in environmental markets since 2002, and has been instrumental in helping the development of several green market sectors. 

Spectron’s rich tradition of “firsts” includes: 

• Brokering the first OTC REC option in the US;
• Brokering the first 2012 OTC CO2 trade in EUAs;
• Brokering the first OTC CO2 option settled against the Chicago Climate Exchange;
  
• Brokering the first California CO2 Option;
• Brokering the first National Green-E Wind REC option;
• Brokering the first Delaware Solar REC;  
• Brokering the first “clean” (emissions-related) spark spread;
• Being the first broker to offer straight-through deal processing via an API.

The Spectron Environmental products team has a proven track record in the trading and brokering of environmental products. Spectron is able to provide comprehensive client support – including structuring complex physical and financial transactions, as well as simpler options, forwards, and inter-commodity trades. Spectron is also extremely well-placed to offer guidance to new players wishing to enter the market – its consultative approach being widely praised and recognised.

Spectron is a leading provider of market information products – its daily market summaries, analytical reports, live market screens and price feeds have become must-have market-monitoring tools for thousands of energy and environmental products professionals – traders, risk officers, consultants, end-users, associations, regulators and government agencies.

Dedicated to energy & commodities only, Spectron is regulated and authorised by the Financial Services Authority in the UK and Europe.