
THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN’ – Iberian Singularity
Energy has been a daily topic of conversation in recent months. We at HES have been closely following all the developments to accompany our clients and help them weather the storm. In some of our previous publications we analysed the onset of the energy crisis after the “recovery” from the
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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.

Sanitary crisis and developments in the French Capacity Market
Back on April 16th, 2020, and due to the Covid19 crisis, EdF announced a reduction in its electricity production forecasts in France for the

Time for renewables: how Covid-19 has affected Wind and Solar development in France
A new day, a new article on Covid-19 pandemic effects on the economy. Leaders of the big industries continue to watch, with great concern,

NoRéNE in the time of Coronavirus
Although the common belief now is that the debate on the post-ARENH system is as old as the ARENH itself, we must still recognise

Energy sector put to the test by COVID-19
At the time of writing this article, news on the pandemic are heartbreaking: hundreds of thousands of people affected, dozens of thousands deceased, planetwide

State aid: EU Commission opens an in-depth investigation into the regulatory mechanism for natural gas storage in France
Our February article envisaged the end of a lengthy saga in the gas sector… and yet, here we are again with a new instalment!

Gas interruptibility: the end of a long saga?
December 2019 saw the publication of an impressive number of texts regarding the natural gas sector regulation in France… After the Energy Regulatory Commission

The verdict is in on the capacity mechanism! Capacity mechanism: things always come in threes
Things always come in threes. TWO thousand €/MW is the standard deviation typically observed between the different auction prices for the 2020 supply year,

Greener than green!
Less white than white, we (and comedian Coluche) suspect, must be light grey. We know what the colour green is…it’s green! But greener than

Hercule: labours postponed until the Greek calends
At the beginning of October, Jean Bernard Levy, the Chairman of EDF, explained in a letter to his employees that the introduction of the