Rough starting to fill up

02 January 2008



Storage still a very important dynamic in the gas market.

As the holiday season saw little excitement gas players started to inject more aggressively as demands were down into Rough. There is no doubt that the market has been suprised at how much use Rough has had particularly in comparison to last year, but with Langeled flowing irregularly the advantage of having storage facilities has been made clear. read more ...

NPower set to annouce retail price increases.  

03 January 2008


Could recessionary pressures be coming from the UK power companies as Npower looks set to break ranks.  read more...

Spark spread for 2008  

04 January 2008


Spark spread play looks to be hotting up but who has it right?  read more...

Ofgem liaise with Darling  

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...

Bulls scare away any bearish thoughts  

08 January 2008


Markets rise on the back of predicted weather conditions which are forecast to be colder at the end of the month.  read more...

Curve anomalies cause high Summer 08  

09 January 2008


Sometimes the sum of the parts does not always equal the whole. Players must look at arbitrage between months and seasons.  read more...

Nuclear go ahead of sorts  

10 January 2008


Nuclear given go-ahead but there is still a lot to do before they produce electricity most predict it will be 2020 before the first project gets on the bars.  read more...

Coal looks interesting  

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...

Big Six collude  

14 January 2008


Although the headline suggest that the big six get together and set price, in reality it is unlikely that they actually do.  read more...

Will the market start from a hedged position?  

15 January 2008


The budget versus trading debate often comes up at this time of year, when players see high prices and start to look at the new tarding year ahead.  read more...

Price setting - Evan Davis  

16 January 2008


Evan Davis' article on Setting prices is well worth a read Powerisk has a few additions to his story.  read more...

Ofgem - hint at windfall taxes  

17 January 2008


Ofgem hint a manipulating markets something which they have always vowed never to do .  read more...

Prices could retreat on fundamentals  

18 January 2008


Electricity prices could start to fall as players turn to the fundamentals in oil and gas.  read more...

Ofgem question ERA  

21 January 2008


Ofgem cover their backs by writing to the ERA, who not surprisngly respond with a "Who me?" attitude.  read more...

Ernst and Young Reports states gas reliance by 2025  

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...

EU plan for renewables for 2020.  

24 January 2008


The EU emissions plans look impressive but by 2020 will they have been achieved?  read more...

Market falls on the back of fundamentals  

25 January 2008


Market slips on fundamentals which show growing supplies as demand fall on mild weather.  read more...

Prompt and curve start to break away  

28 January 2008


The market has rallied again in the prompt on the back of the cold snap predicted at the end of the week, but encouragingly the curve has not risen with it.  read more...

Oil bets show that the bulls are turning bearish  

29 January 2008


Oil prices set to slide as players turn bearish on economic demands.  read more...

Energy Intensives Users Group hint that Summer is a concern  

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...

Net UK Carbon position down 0.01%  

31 January 2008


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


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