ICIS - energy podcasts

Iran reduced gas flows to Turkey on Tuesday while Russia is feared to cut its flows to Turkey after downing of a fighter yet deteriorated relations between the two countries. Turkish Energy Hub Daily editor Aura Sabadus and European Gas Markets reporter Elizabeth Stonor discuss how exposed Turkey is to a gas crisis this winter in light of these developments.

The electricity market needs to adapt to the mass onset of renewable energy with variable output. ICIS electricity expert Jamie Stewart reports from November’s EMART Energy conference in Barcelona on how this can be achieved.

Plans to decommission a number of power plants in Belgium and Poland have been put on hold this week. News editor Fionn O'Raghallaigh speaks to market experts Joachim Moxon and Karolina Zagrodna about what impact these developments will have on prices. Listen here.

European Gas Markets Deputy Editor Emma Slawinski interviews British and Noridc gas market reporter Thomas Rodgers about what the decline in the oil price means for North Sea gas production.

ICIS gas reporters Julie Fischer and Marcello Kolax discuss the price drop on calendar contracts on the German NCG natural gas market and the potential knock-on effect on supply in the first quarter of 2016.

A one-year delay to the implementation of MiFID II moved closer this week as MEPs softened their stance on the issue. ICIS editors Tom Marzec-Manser and Fionn O’Raghallaigh discuss the potential benefits of a delay to traders.

European utility hedging rates trended down year on year in Q3, while fossil fuel-fired generation picked up. ICIS carbon and power specialists Ben Lee, Silvia Molteni and Saloni Sardana discuss the reasons for this and outlook going forward.

Prices in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), an emissions trading system applicable to northeast states in the USA, have been rising lately. ICIS carbon reporters Ben Lee and McGraw discuss here.

This week, the UK government announced plans to phase out coal-fired power generation while in the Netherlands gas production from the country’s biggest field Groningen was temporarily reduced. Ben Lee talks to Henry Evans and Jake Horslen about the impact of these announcements.

German gas and power markets have been bearish this week in spite of cuts to gas supplies to the country and an increase in the winter power reserve. Editor Isabel Save speaks to German market experts Julie Fisher and Laura Raus about why this has happened.