
Fragile energy security for this winter
Once again, we stand on the threshold of winter and actors and consumers are beginning to inquire about energy supply in Europe. This year, unlike the past, there seems to be no major concern; prices remain high but not historically high. However, while there are no alarm signals for this
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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.

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

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