SmarterMarkets™ Weathering Decarbonization Episode 1 | Robin Girmes, Founder & CEO, Enwex
Feb 7, 2026
Robin Girmes, founder and CEO of Enwex, builds weather indices to help energy firms hedge climate-linked supply and price risk. He traces his shift from geography to meteorology and explains how renewables magnify system flexibility challenges. He describes index design choices for temperature, wind and solar, who uses these products, and why standardized weather contracts could become a tradable risk market.
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Sailing And Geography Led To Markets
- Robin traced his interest in weather back to sailing and a geography degree that led to meteorology and programming.
- Those early experiences helped him bridge meteorology with commercial trading in power and gas.
Early Storm Forced Market Awareness
- Robin described entering the energy sector in 2007 as a meteorologist at a large German utility during the first big storm that delivered 10 GW of wind power.
- That event forced engineers and traders to confront how variable renewables impact their balance sheets and operations.
Design Indices To Match Trading Habits
- Robin redesigned indices to match how traders think by using day-end settlement, country/hub averages, and hourly strips for cascadeable hedging.
- This alignment increases usability for power and gas market participants and enables practical incremental hedging.