ICIS - energy podcasts

The European Commission recently launched its preliminary findings on capacity mechanisms in the EU, which concluded that member states did not sufficiently analyse the need for capacity payments in their country before introducing them. This resulted in distorted electricity market prices. Listen to the conversation between ICIS reporters Ben Lee and Claire Wilson as they discuss the findings and long-term outlook for the European power markets.

The European Commission recently launched its preliminary findings on capacity mechanisms in the EU, which concluded that member states did not sufficiently analyse the need for capacity payments in their country before introducing them. This resulted in distorted electricity market prices. Listen to the conversation between ICIS reporters Ben Lee and Claire Wilson discuss the findings and long-term outlook for the European power markets.

Energy market participants face additional trade reporting requirements as of last week, when the second phase of the regulation for wholesale energy market integrity and transparency (REMIT) came in. Regulation experts Silvia Molteni, Ben Lee and Marcello Kolax discuss the issue.

Two announcements made this week, concerning the Norwegian Troll field and Britain’s Rough storage site, are likely to improve future European natural gas supply. ICIS gas specialists Ben Lee, Julie Fisher and Ben Samuel discuss the impact this may have on wholesale gas prices.

Renegotiations between a number of European energy companies and Gazprom for long-term gas contracts are on the agenda in this week’s ICIS energy highlights. Listen to the conversation between ICIS journalists Marcello Kolax, Matilde Mereghetti and news deputy editor Miriam Siers here.

With global LNG supply expected to remain long for the coming years, reloads offer buyers one way of balancing their own positions. Global LNG editor Ed Cox talks to deputy editor Josie Shillito on the entry of Japan to the reload business and addresses key changes in the east Asian market.

Following a mild winter, natural gas stocks in Europe remain exceptionally high even as the gas winter draws to a close at the end of March. ICIS storage expert Julie Fisher talks to Thomas Rodgers about what effect this will have on summer prices and how it could change the way storage facilities are used in the future.

Reporters Laura Raus, Irina Peltegova and Ellie Chambers discuss highlights of the Energy Risk Balkans conference which took place in Sofia, including the Romanian parliament’s plans to lift a ban on bilateral power trading outside of the exchange OPCOM and the future of Bulgaria in the regional electricity market coupling.

LNG trades that result in cargoes being delivered to Europe will need to be reported under EU energy transparency legislation from early April. Despite the impending deadline, ICIS LNG experts Ed Cox and Josie Shillito discuss the many unresolved questions on the specifics of the reports that need to be filed.

Trade is starting to grow at Spain’s natural gas hub since the turn of the year as new rules mean shippers face harsher financial punishment for being out of balance. Market reporters Christopher Rene and Robert Songer discuss January’s introduction of new imbalance penalties and why liquidity could grow further later in the year.