Powerisk Glossary

To help you understand some of the terms used on our website we have included a useful glossary of power terminology below.

Items highlighted in green link to news articles which relate to each term, usually where there has been some influence on the energy market.

Arbitrage
Backwardation  13
Baseload  14
Bear Market  159
Bid
Bmu
Broker
Bull Market  125
Call
Cap
Carbon  167
Climate Change  95
Coal  58
Collars {FSLASH} Zero Cost Collars
Conservative  3
Contango  24
Corruption  21
Dark Spread
Demand Weighted Price
Efa
Efa Calendar
Electricity  75
Embedded
EU  80
Finance  109
Forward Curve  139
Gas  218
Generation  159
GTMA
Hedged
Industry  59
Interconnector  34
IPE
Labour  9
Legs
Load Shape 44
Long
Lot Size
Low carbon technology  32
Mark to Market
Matrix  1
Mid
NBP
NISM
Nuclear  78
Off Peak  1
Offer
Oil  88
Oil  73
Options or Derivatives
Peak  5
Price
Prompt  120
Protocols  15
Put
Regulation  68
Renewable Energy  46
Risk Management  79
Russia  17
shape  9
Short
Slick Spread
Spark Spread
Spread  85
Spread
Spread
Squeeze
Standard Deal
Storage  49
Strike Price
Structured Deal
Summer  23
Supplier
Supply  108
Time Weighted Price
Transmission  30
UK Government  137
UK Opposition  1
Unhedged
Volatility  21
Volatility
Volatility  1
Volatility  51
War and Terrorism  11
Weather  142
Wholesale Market
Winter  40


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EdF enters the world of competition..  

05 November 2009


EdF has capitalised on competitive energy markets across Europe, not least in the UK, while at the same time enjoying a dominant, competition free, environment at home in France. It looks as though the EC has finally caught up with them...  read more...

Demand Led Economic Recovery?  

09 October 2009


What constitutes real demand is a question increasingly being asked, not least because it is viewed as a key indicator to signal the start of economic recovery. However a rise in demand may not necessarily mean a lift to the economy.  read more...

Market forgets basic principles and panics!  

02 October 2009


It could be said that the market over reacted today in the prompt market with a price rally on the back of a £142 half hourly cash out price.  read more...

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