
12 October 2005
Doom mongers drive power prices up on the possibilities of an assasination and a repeat of World War One.
Traders received the Winter Outlook forecast from NGC last week. The main upshot of the report is that even in a one and fifty winter the lights will not go out. We have a slight issue in that we have a 22% margin on a base case scenario and we have 27% gas produced energy. This means that if the gas were not coming into the UK at all then we would be potentially in some trouble, we would have to ask some big industrial users to switch off and NGC would pay them handsomely to do so. These remarks and fears have been widely seen in the press and perhaps it is in the interest of the power companies to raise prices rather than lower them, the gas market ticked up marginally yesterday where as power reacted violently rising £1.70 in some seasons. The moral of the story is that you buy the rumour and sell the fact. The rumour being it could be a tight margin if the gas is not forthcoming, the fact we will not run out of gas unless we end up going to war with Albania, Algeria, Germany Italy, Russia and Hungary and that hasn't happened since 1918.
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Oil bulls return
 
09 August 2005
Markets rise on oil fears hitting new highs, gas trcikles up and Carbon looks to respond. The bulls are back in town.  
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Energy Forward Prices continue to gain ground
 
10 June 2011
Despite market participants describing the market as stagnant and directionless, energy forward prices continue to gain ground. Winter 11 power closed the week up at £59.65/MWh while NBP Winter 11 gas finished at 72.20p/therm.  
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Downward Trend Still in Play
 
13 May 2011
Most contracts in the UK energy markets continued to lose ground this week enforcing the downward trend that has been in play since the start of the month. The Winter 11 contracts closed the week at £57.60MW/h and 68.85p/therm.  
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Winter 11 - A Slippery Slope
 
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.  
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The Market in April 2011
 
28 April 2011
In comparison to the activity seen in March – the energy markets seemed relatively sedate shedding some of the value along the way.  
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Fear factors and risk premia
 
16 August 2006
Risk premia and fear will always effect markets one study suggests that $20 + is the risk premia in oil and whilst one doubts it as high in power and gas it is there. What is clear is that as the market stabilises, confidence grows and the risk premias fall.  
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Middle East explodes in the markets
 
17 July 2006
The short term facts suggest that the market had to go higher, but this does not mean that we should see the back end of the curve rise inexorably as well. Some sellers are keeping a cap on the backend of the curve but the buyers also have to be disciplined.  
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