Australia's No.1 environmental commodity broker
Nextgen is a market leader in the inter-dealer and intercompany brokering of physical energy, energy derivatives and environmental commodities to domestic and commercial consumers in Australia. Founded in February 2000 and headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, Nextgen possesses significant expertise in the area of energy and environmental commodity brokerage. Nextgen also provides related market advisory services to assist clients with their financial and environmental objectives. Further, Nextgen is the only Australian owned broking company in this market.
Nextgen’s client base includes domestic and international banks and financial institutions, energy generators, distributors and retailers, and commercial and industrial companies and Government.
Nextgen has two existing business units:
- Transaction Brokerage
- Advisory Services
Transaction Brokerage originates and arranges transactions in the domestic energy market, as well as providing trade origination and execution services, covering emissions and environmental commodities (RECs) on behalf of domestic and international clients.
Energy Brokerage
Nextgen provides power marketers, utilities, producers, risk managers and institutions in Australia with a single comprehensive source for price information and liquidity in a broad and expanding range of energy markets including, coal, natural gas, oil and power. Nextgen also offers a full range of derivative risk management tools servicing the Australian electricity markets.
Environmental Commodities Brokerage
Nextgen originates and arranges environmental commodities transactions in regional, state, national and international markets. Nextgen is a leading Australian broker for originating, structuring and arranging transactions in this market and already aggregates RECs on an ad-hoc basis for a number of small originators.
Advisory Services
Advisory Services leverages Nextgen’s expertise in the area of energy and environmental commodities markets, delivering environmental commodity advisory solutions to a range of Australian and multinational corporate clients.
Nextgen Growth Profile
- Highly leveraged to growth in the volume of environmental commodities traded
- The leading Australian environmental commodities broker
- Develop environmental commodity asset management business
- Selective acquisitions of complementary businesses
Forecast value of Australian environmental commodities traded (A$m)1
Source: Clean Energy Council and *Nextgen management estimates
1Substantial growth is effectively legislated in the Australian environmental commodities market