Feb Texas Winners and Losers

Just curious to hear anyone's opinions/thoughts on how firms made out over the February power/gas market blowout. We should have a good idea now since invoices were due on Mar 25th

I'm hearing some ongoing legal paperwork for a lot of companies(XTO/Macquarie) and some may get tied up for months

Heard BAML, Citadel, Hartree, Macquarie made some good $$

It seems anyone in the physical marketing space made their yearly budget and then some

Any natural short that was uncovered or load-following deals got the bad end of that move

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Some retail books performed very very well; other obviously were destroyed to level that a few companies no longer exist.  Lots of gen got smoked over non-performance and short-covering.  Renewables is a mixed bag depending on where their swaps were settled vs. production (quite a few I've heard took the S-N spread in the teeth).  

ERCOT snowball of $2B+ in non-payment that needs to finish sorting itself out; that'll push some players deeper in the red and knock wind from the sails of others.

 
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Basically every marketer killed it during this stretch. It seems the retail escos along with some companies with big retail books (Exelon) are the ones who really got screwed here. There were arbs everywhere, even if you didn’t have any firm assets in Texas/midcon with spreads completely out of whack and liquidity drying up due to credit concerns during the crazy stretch. Many made out like complete bandits. My company is on track for the best year in its history strictly due to the physical gas desk and I’ve heard the same about many other gas desks as well. I doubt we’ll ever see price action like that in our lifetimes. Quite a time to have been in the market... 

 

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