Speculator Irony  

19 September 2008

With all that has happened in the financial markets this past few days, and with Lehman Brothers collapsing on the 14th September, the one thing that has remained constant is the Speculator Trader rubbished as a cause of volatility and prices rises in one market or another.  read more...

Net UK Carbon position down 0.01%  

31 January 2008

Targets look quite difficult to achieve just by cutting the norm!  read more...

Large Plant Combustion Directive  

06 December 2007

We must watch carefully as to when and how old coal plant starts getting superceded.  read more...

Traders through thin volume start to look at Carbon  

03 December 2007

Bali conference bound to produce some interesting snippets, but more likely to "guilt" the non-particpants into action.  read more...

Ofgem likely to expand remit  

19 September 2007

Ofgem look to manage carbon regulation  read more...

A joy to be French  

29 June 2007

Typically if there is a French way of gaming the system they will find a way of breaking the rules.  read more...

Bush Takes Climate Change Seriously...?  

01 June 2007

Bush asks the world's leading economies to 'join' him in agreeing to reduce CO2 emissions......  read more...

Fundamental Lows (Part 1)  

22 January 2007

Fundamental lows are something many traders ignore. But Warren Buffet and George Soros are fundamental traders and they seem to have got many things right!  read more...

First step to a UK power Index  

23 November 2006

Power indices are the start to attracting a non-physical market which might well look at developing greater liquidity in this world.  read more...

Emissions longs keen to stay that way  

03 August 2006

Emissions length due to hit the market in 2007 as many players hold back length. Perhaps the biggest reason for this is that the NAP process will be over by then. But this is not a certainty.  read more...

Power Trade Forum talks the talk  

07 April 2006

Power trade forum definitely is heading in the right direction but perhaps some of the large customers are not truly reflecting the will of the players in the whole market. Time will tell.  read more...

The Uk delagation gets fobbed off in Brussels  

21 October 2005

End users complain to Brussels, and it falls on deaf ears. Markets go to where it hurts ten years of low energy prices is not sustainable in the long run.  read more...

The lack of liquidity is proved in report.  

25 August 2005

Market falls in prompt, and overall traded volumes. A small pick up in the back end of the curve caused by gas was reported.  read more...

Italian Rollercoaster Ride  

23 May 2005

Italian NAP forces market moves as rumour is quashed by counter rumour.  read more...

Parties clash over Climate Change  

21 April 2005

Real Terrorism versus Eco Terrorism may be a difficult choice.  read more...