Winter 11 - A Slippery Slope
While March was a month of shocks and gains, April seems to have marked the start of a downward trend in the UK power market. The WInter 11 contract is just one example. read more...
06 May 2011
While March was a month of shocks and gains, April seems to have marked the start of a downward trend in the UK power market. The WInter 11 contract is just one example. read more...
Where's the certainty?
There was a time when you could quite comfortably forecast the running order of generation plant in the UK - but 2009 has seen a dramatic turn in the stack! read more...
23 December 2009
There was a time when you could quite comfortably forecast the running order of generation plant in the UK - but 2009 has seen a dramatic turn in the stack! read more...
Dong buy Severn Power
The Danish energy utility, Dong have bought one part of Carron Energy. read more...
10 March 2009
The Danish energy utility, Dong have bought one part of Carron Energy. read more...
Green Light for additional 3.92GW of Capacity
The development of 3.92GW of power plant capacity was given the green light yesterday by the Department for Energy & Climate Change. read more...
06 February 2009
The development of 3.92GW of power plant capacity was given the green light yesterday by the Department for Energy & Climate Change. read more...
A sliding Prompt
A comfortable system in terms of supply margins left the prompt power market sliding. read more...
14 November 2008
A comfortable system in terms of supply margins left the prompt power market sliding. read more...
Cashing in on the Power Price Highs
A number of coal-fired power stations, that opted out of the Large Combustion Plant Directive (LCPD), appear to have exceeded operating expectations to take advantage of high summer power prices read more...
29 August 2008
A number of coal-fired power stations, that opted out of the Large Combustion Plant Directive (LCPD), appear to have exceeded operating expectations to take advantage of high summer power prices read more...
Currency moves beginning to effect market.
Currency moves has meant that buying $ priced oil and coal will be costing the UK more than in previous months. read more...
14 August 2008
Currency moves has meant that buying $ priced oil and coal will be costing the UK more than in previous months. read more...
Price Falls Short-lived
Prompt power market rebounds following on from yesterday’s sell-off. read more...
16 May 2008
Prompt power market rebounds following on from yesterday’s sell-off. read more...
UK Power Market Plays Catch-Up
The UK Power Market had to play catch up after the bank holiday as the differential between UK and French Power prices widened. read more...
06 May 2008
The UK Power Market had to play catch up after the bank holiday as the differential between UK and French Power prices widened. read more...
Coal, Gas & Carbon all help to hold WInter Down
Contracts across the power curve opened strongly helped by the high prices reported in the oil markets. read more...
28 April 2008
Contracts across the power curve opened strongly helped by the high prices reported in the oil markets. read more...
Prompt and Curve diverge
Could the change in price be a trading signal. read more...
19 February 2008
Could the change in price be a trading signal. read more...
Electricity Labelling called for by retail
Electricity labelling not very well thought out as the costs will far outweigh any of the benefits. This would be classic spin for no reason. read more...
06 February 2008
Electricity labelling not very well thought out as the costs will far outweigh any of the benefits. This would be classic spin for no reason. read more...
Energy Intensives Users Group hint that Summer is a concern
The EIUG make some interesting observations but it is clear that the relationship between the spark and dark spread is of growing importance. read more...
30 January 2008
The EIUG make some interesting observations but it is clear that the relationship between the spark and dark spread is of growing importance. read more...
Ernst and Young Reports states gas reliance by 2025
Ernst Young think that gas is where the growth is. Powerisk disagrees and thinks that the future is in coal this where the growth in the technology is. read more...
22 January 2008
Ernst Young think that gas is where the growth is. Powerisk disagrees and thinks that the future is in coal this where the growth in the technology is. read more...
Coal looks interesting
Coal although massively in demand has risen so much in price that players have switched to gas, this in turn has risen and perhaps as all commodities prices start to fall on economics some will start to look at coal more seriously again. read more...
11 January 2008
Coal although massively in demand has risen so much in price that players have switched to gas, this in turn has risen and perhaps as all commodities prices start to fall on economics some will start to look at coal more seriously again. read more...
Ofgem liaise with Darling
Darling thinks that Ofgem may hold the answers but Ofgem rightly do not interfere with markets something which Darling should be aware of. read more...
07 January 2008
Darling thinks that Ofgem may hold the answers but Ofgem rightly do not interfere with markets something which Darling should be aware of. read more...
Spark spread for 2008
Spark spread play looks to be hotting up but who has it right? read more...
04 January 2008
Spark spread play looks to be hotting up but who has it right? read more...
Market continues to rise
Market rises as all market start to rally on the back of an oil squeeze. read more...
24 September 2007
Market rises as all market start to rally on the back of an oil squeeze. read more...
Large Plant Combustion Directive
Coal plant is in decline but guessing how steep this decline is, can be very difficult. read more...
06 July 2007
Coal plant is in decline but guessing how steep this decline is, can be very difficult. read more...
Will nuclear go Green
The demand for carbon footprint reductions is large but the industry must be careful not to over engineerthe solution. read more...
05 July 2007
The demand for carbon footprint reductions is large but the industry must be careful not to over engineerthe solution. read more...
Market falls on coal gas and carbon
Normal trading conditions continue in the mild mannered Summer. read more...
26 June 2007
Normal trading conditions continue in the mild mannered Summer. read more...
Coal makes a reappearance
Coal is still the dominant fuel type for new build projects but as prices start to rise some projects may look less appealing. read more...
08 June 2007
Coal is still the dominant fuel type for new build projects but as prices start to rise some projects may look less appealing. read more...
Traders look at fundamenatals for the future.
The market makers at the back end of the curve will be careful not to take pure risk. read more...
06 March 2007
The market makers at the back end of the curve will be careful not to take pure risk. read more...
The spreads are saying something
Spreads often show correlations and how they might be linked but the correlations are breaking between Winter and Summer throughout the curve. read more...
23 February 2007
Spreads often show correlations and how they might be linked but the correlations are breaking between Winter and Summer throughout the curve. read more...
Bull sightings getting rarer.
The markets continue to fall and this suggests that levels may well have further to fall. read more...
08 January 2007
The markets continue to fall and this suggests that levels may well have further to fall. read more...
Spark spread of interest
Sparkers dictate the movement of the markets, but it is never as simple as it is cracked up to be. read more...
24 October 2006
Sparkers dictate the movement of the markets, but it is never as simple as it is cracked up to be. read more...
A tale of the forward dark spread.
Some long term hedging is effecting the market and the lack of buyers has caused the markets to turn South, although oil has bobbled up on Friday the long term trend still appears to be down. read more...
16 October 2006
Some long term hedging is effecting the market and the lack of buyers has caused the markets to turn South, although oil has bobbled up on Friday the long term trend still appears to be down. read more...
E.On caught between a ROC and a hard place
E.On looking at serious alternatives to CCGT technology which is not necessarily that green. read more...
11 October 2006
E.On looking at serious alternatives to CCGT technology which is not necessarily that green. read more...
8 GW of plant goes on outage.
A stream of plant are now on outage if the market fundamentals can cope (which everything suggests they can) then we are in for a low Summer, and this could pull Winter with it. read more...
28 June 2006
A stream of plant are now on outage if the market fundamentals can cope (which everything suggests they can) then we are in for a low Summer, and this could pull Winter with it. read more...
A theory of some import
The LCPD is going to become more of a hot subject and it could end up doing what the emissions market had always hoped it would do........ cut emissions. read more...
03 June 2006
The LCPD is going to become more of a hot subject and it could end up doing what the emissions market had always hoped it would do........ cut emissions. read more...
Emissions market breaks all the rules.
Emissions markets defy logic, as more bearish news comes to the fore the buyers continue to force the price up to an intraday high of €21. read more...
16 May 2006
Emissions markets defy logic, as more bearish news comes to the fore the buyers continue to force the price up to an intraday high of €21. read more...
Dark and Spark spread influencing the future
Dark and spark spread prices are causing some concern, as they are not fundamentally changing the way the world looks at fuel for producing power. read more...
04 May 2006
Dark and spark spread prices are causing some concern, as they are not fundamentally changing the way the world looks at fuel for producing power. read more...
Isn't it Ironic
Dark and spark spreads have polarised the market, but when its cold and the flexibility to adjust in the gas market goes, so does the price. read more...
14 March 2006
Dark and spark spreads have polarised the market, but when its cold and the flexibility to adjust in the gas market goes, so does the price. read more...
EU Energy Policy: Time to Work Together
EC president, Jose Manuel Barroso has said that it is vital for EU leaders to abandon their 25 different and uncoordinated energy policies and speak with one voice. emphasising that certain areas of energy policy, including fuel mix, would remain an area for individual states, the paper has called for greater degrees of coordination in others. read more...
09 March 2006
EC president, Jose Manuel Barroso has said that it is vital for EU leaders to abandon their 25 different and uncoordinated energy policies and speak with one voice. emphasising that certain areas of energy policy, including fuel mix, would remain an area for individual states, the paper has called for greater degrees of coordination in others. read more...
The fundamentals of Summer 06
Spark and dark spreads show that the need for gas during the Summer is low, so we should see a hike in spark spread and a fall in gas prices, but it doesn't always work like that. read more...
30 January 2006
Spark and dark spreads show that the need for gas during the Summer is low, so we should see a hike in spark spread and a fall in gas prices, but it doesn't always work like that. read more...
Market economics working in production
Oil under pressure from Iran, as coal fired plant is on the up as the spark spread tightens relative to the dark spread. read more...
16 January 2006
Oil under pressure from Iran, as coal fired plant is on the up as the spark spread tightens relative to the dark spread. read more...
Will coal really close by 2015.
Coal and emissions still cheaper than gas, and so energy reviews and white papers cannot take away the economic facts that the dash for gas was right for the 1990's, and less apt for now. read more...
09 January 2006
Coal and emissions still cheaper than gas, and so energy reviews and white papers cannot take away the economic facts that the dash for gas was right for the 1990's, and less apt for now. read more...
Phase 11 NAP causing investment decisions now.
IP plump for FGD on the back of LCPD and Phase 11 NAP clarifications. HAPPY CHRISTMAS read more...
23 December 2005
IP plump for FGD on the back of LCPD and Phase 11 NAP clarifications. HAPPY CHRISTMAS read more...
Falls eroded, in jobbing market. Drax floats at £5.
Quiet market as the traders drink to healthy profits before Christmas. read more...
16 December 2005
Quiet market as the traders drink to healthy profits before Christmas. read more...
Drax receives £1.9bn cash offer
Drax bid brings us back to the old days, but times have changed since the first £1.9bn bid. read more...
13 September 2005
Drax bid brings us back to the old days, but times have changed since the first £1.9bn bid. read more...
Winter 05 resurgence
Beware of the impact of increasing freight prices on the back of Katrina. read more...
01 September 2005
Beware of the impact of increasing freight prices on the back of Katrina. read more...
Which market do you believe?
Oil dictates play in the city, but gas power carbon and coal stick to the knitting and look at the fundamentals. read more...
11 August 2005
Oil dictates play in the city, but gas power carbon and coal stick to the knitting and look at the fundamentals. read more...
New Highs - Could market be broken
Market highs, put pressure on governments to intervene, who is likely to be the G.Soros of the power market. read more...
25 June 2005
Market highs, put pressure on governments to intervene, who is likely to be the G.Soros of the power market. read more...
Emissions Demand and Supply
"'Curiouser and curiouser,' cried Alice!" Alice and Wonderland read more...
17 June 2005
"'Curiouser and curiouser,' cried Alice!" Alice and Wonderland read more...
UK Government Faces legal challenge over FiT cuts
Friends of the Earth are seeking a judicial review following DECCs failure to amend its plans to significantly cut the current Feed-in-Tariffs. This follows another legal challenge that has been brought by solar power developer Solarcentury. read more...
14 November 2011
Friends of the Earth are seeking a judicial review following DECCs failure to amend its plans to significantly cut the current Feed-in-Tariffs. This follows another legal challenge that has been brought by solar power developer Solarcentury. read more...
Italy draws attention
Greece will be pleased to be out of the spotlight as focus switches to Italy. Interest rates on Italian Bonds have risen above 7% - the level which caused Ireland and Portugal to go looking for help. read more...
11 November 2011
Greece will be pleased to be out of the spotlight as focus switches to Italy. Interest rates on Italian Bonds have risen above 7% - the level which caused Ireland and Portugal to go looking for help. read more...
Market Responds Positively to Greek Coalition Government
Commodity prices strengthen on coalition Government news from Greece. Third day of gains in the oil markets helping to fuel other energy commoditities. read more...
07 November 2011
Commodity prices strengthen on coalition Government news from Greece. Third day of gains in the oil markets helping to fuel other energy commoditities. read more...
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