Open, CBAM!
On 13 December, in an enthusiastic press release, the European Commission welcomed the political agreement reached on the same day between the European Parliament and the European Council on the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), better known by its Irish acronym CBAM, whose principle is to tax the carbon content
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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.
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
PPAs for all!
For some time now, the world of energy has been watching the emergence of a new reference acronym: ‘PPA’. These three letters, often complemented
The French capacity mechanism still has a few tricks up its sleeve!
It’s becoming a habit; every HES Newsletter includes an article about the French capacity mechanism. At this rate, we’ll end up making it a
The ARENH and TRVs are trying to fit (into) the new Energy and Climate law
In the beginning, it was only meant to be a bill for correcting a minor issue – practically a typo or oversight on the
2018, a record year for gas
In a report made public on Friday 7 June (Gas 2019), the International Energy Agency (IEA) states that the demand for natural gas grew
Energy: extinction of the dinosaurs… Petroleum Rex versus Nukeonosaurus?
The process was triggered on a large scale in the months following the Fukushima accident, with the German decision to decommission nuclear power plants.
Brexit and the energy market
Every day, energy market analysts comment, systematically and seemingly without any particular rules, on market movements and outlooks (bullish, bearish or stable) with respect
French capacity certificates are being traded at €20K/MW for 2020 supply. EDF is securing the market
On 21 March, the first auction of capacity certificates for the 2020 year resulted in an exchange of 4.17 GW with a price of
