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ICIS LNG experts Ed Cox, Ranjana Kaushal and Ruth Liao speak about US interest in delivering LNG to the European market and whether there is sufficient demand in Europe for these deliveries.

The south eastern Europe and Turkish electricity markets are undergoing a major period of transformation as a number of new and upcoming power exchanges are launched in the region. ICIS energy reporters Sophie Udubasceanu, Aura Sabadus and Irina Peltegova discuss the impact this is having on the development of the over-the-counter markets.

The National Grid issued its first system warning since 2012 on Wednesday. ICIS managing editor Isabel Save speaks to European Daily Electricity Markets editor Jamie Stewart about its impact on the UK power market, while European Spot Gas Markets deputy editor Ben Samuel discusses how it affected the British gas market.

ICIS reporters Ben Samuel, Miriam Siers and Claire Wilson discuss changes to capacity booking mechanisms in European gas and power markets and how this will affect energy traders.

UN-held climate talks, known as COP21, in Paris in December could lead to a global emissions reduction deal for the period after 2020. This could have a major impact on carbon markets. Lead carbon reporter Ben Lee discusses the implications of the talks with senior analyst Yann Andreassen from ICIS analytics division Tschach Solutions based in Germany.

European coal and gas prices hit new lows in week 43 while carbon prices reached their highest level in three years. ICIS Energy lead carbon reporter Ben Lee discusses these price movements with coal reporter Stacy Irish, gas reporter Thomas Rodgers and EDCM editor Silvia Molteni.

In today’s podcast ICIS journalists discuss the gas market liberalisation reform in Ukraine that came into effect from 1 October. The new rules are still far from being fully implemented. Ukrainian experts Elizabeth Stonor, Ekaterina Kravtsova and Marcello Kolax discuss the implications of the reform for the gas market.

Italy’s electricity transmission system operator Terna hopes to introduce a capacity market in 2016, where it will auction options products annually. This means payments will be linked to available capacity of plants rather than their electricity output. Its 2016 deadline will have to depend on EU state aid approval. ICIS Italian market reporters Riccardo Patrian and Matilde Mereghetti examine the issue in more depth.

Week 42 brought more certainty about Russian winter gas flows to Europe, but concerns have emerged about the privatisation of Turkish power generation assets. ICIS Energy lead carbon reporter Ben Lee discusses these developments with European Spot Gas Markets editor Tom Marzec-Manser and Turkish Energy Hub Daily editor Aura Sabadus.

A recent Dutch parliament vote promoting a new cut to natural gas production at the Groningen cluster impacted trading on gas and power markets across Europe last week. ICIS deputy news editor Miriam Siers talks to deputy gas editor Ben Samuel about the vote’s consequences for the benchmark Dutch TTF market.
LNG expert Ludovic Aldersley discusses recent updates on the Baltic LNG market.