Gains Seen Across the Curve  

21 December 2009

There was no sign of an early Christmas in the power market on Friday with a 'flurry' of trading resulting in gains across the power curve.  read more...

New trading levels anticipated in UK Power Markets  

28 August 2009

The electricity market saw two main technical levels breached for the first time in the Summer 10 and Winter 10 contracts.  read more...

Night Night Power Market!  

07 August 2009

The market seems warm and cosy (aka stable with low volatility) - but wait until the players return in September!  read more...

Budget day sees the UK set lead on carbon  

22 April 2009

The chancellor stated that he wanted the UK to cut emissions by 34% by 2020.  read more...

Ofgem enquiry completed  

18 March 2009

Ofgem have completed their competition probe and not really delivered for business.  read more...

Capacity Payments Discussed as a Tool to encourage Investment  

30 June 2010

In a week when the engineering industry, in its State of the Nation report, said that the Energy Industry gave the most cause for concern in light of security of supply, Energy Minister Charles Hendry spoke of 'Capacity Payments' as a tool to incentivise plant development.  read more...

Coal, Gas & Carbon all help to hold WInter Down  

28 April 2008

Contracts across the power curve opened strongly helped by the high prices reported in the oil markets.  read more...

Drax up against it  

05 March 2008

Drax profit margins fall as competition will only get harder.  read more...

Ofgem investigates  

21 February 2008

Finally an competition enquiry into the energy market has begun.  read more...

Coal weighs heavily  

14 February 2008

Coal prices have doubled in the last six months.  read more...

Where's the certainty?  

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  

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  

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  

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  

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...

Power Prices Ride the Crest of the Fuel Wave  

26 April 2010

A bullish fuel market fed through into the UK Power Market today with gains of over £2/MWh seen on most of the seasonal curve contracts.  read more...

What type of recession will it be.  

13 May 2009

Economists are trying hard to work out if this recession will be a V, W or square root type of recession.  read more...

Oil eases off  

15 April 2009

Oil bulls retreated as the markets digested the US oil stock levels.  read more...

Market ticks up  

04 March 2009

The power market ticked up marginally today on the back of retail clients starting to hedge exposures out of April 09.  read more...

Oil increases turn gas more bullish  

25 February 2009

The oil market rose marginally to an change in US stock levels.  read more...