Wind record generation – Shut down of EDF nuclear assets
In November 2024, France experienced a period of significant dynamism in the field of electricity generation, driven primarily by the variability in wind power production. During this month, wind generation levels fluctuated considerably, directly impacting market prices. One of the most notable milestones occurred during the passage of Storm Bert
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Each month, one of our experts publishes an article describing his view on a specific topic of the constant changes taking place in the energy market, with special focus on the French market.
The dark (side) strikes back?
Coal, emblem of the 19th century and an already distant industrial revolution, belongs definitively to the past. Its disappearance is being recorded everywhere, and
CO2: The return
As of last August, the financial world was already labelling CO2 as the best-performing raw material of 2018, with a nod to its price
The French PPE (multi-year energy programme) and the future of the electricity market
At this stage, we are used to watching the State intervene in the electricity market, from the side of supply as well as demand.
Germany´s energy sector under the new GroKo
On March 14th, Chancellor Angela Merkel was elected to a fourth term in office and will head a new grand coalition (Grosse Koalition –
Meanwhile, in Germany…
On 9 January, a Catholic church in Immerath, a city in western Germany, was destroyed to make way for the expansion of a gigantic
The Force Assesses
On November 7th, 2017, RTE [the French Electricity Transmission Network] published the overview of its 2017 Generation Adequacy Report.
The price of capacity: unknowns and equations
The capacity market à la française is a complicated creation: the NOME [New Organisation of the Market for Electricity] law in 2010, a decree
Block is ticking…
As fits the new year, today we’re looking toward the future – more specifically, toward one of the ‘game changers’ that could deeply change the energy world.
Carbon price floor: supporting the EU ETS
In its progress towards meeting its climate commitments under the Kyoto Protocol, the EU is on the right path to achieve its target of
