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Montel News @montelnews.bsky.social · 28m
Russia hit Ukrainian gas production facilities with drones overnight, including a combined heat and power plant (CHP) operated by state-run energy firm Naftogaz, the company said on Wednesday. montelnews.com/news/2c590d3...
Russia hits Ukraine gas facilities in 3rd major attack in a week
Russia strikes Ukrainian gas facilities, including a Naftogaz CHP – third major attack in a week, raising winter supply concerns and fuelling extra import needs.
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Montel News @montelnews.bsky.social · 3h
Europe’s power market is heading into a challenging winter marked by persistent negative prices, fragile gas balances and weather-related risks, Montel Analytics said in its latest quarterly report on Wednesday. montelnews.com/news/bfd941f...
EU power market faces challenging winter – Montel Analytics
Europe heads into a tough winter with persistent negative prices, fragile gas balances and weather risks – Montel Analytics warns.
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Montel News @montelnews.bsky.social · 4h
Trading via the EU’s cross-border platform for balancing power – Picasso – is “like gambling” and was akin to being “blindfolded”, with the mechanism creating unmanageable risk, traders told Montel this week. montelnews.com/news/d53c6cb...
Trading via Picasso mechanism “like gambling” – traders
Picasso balancing platform causes extreme, unpredictable price swings – traders call it “like gambling”, blaming testing gaps, low liquidity and retroactive price fixes.
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Montel News @montelnews.bsky.social · 4h
Column of the Week - Sibling rivalry: nuclear and renewables compete for Britain’s family silver montelnews.com/news/677e953...
Sibling rivalry: nuclear and renewables compete for Britain’s family silver
Having a new member join the family is always exciting. During a recent spending review, UK chancellor Rachel Reeves announced a new arrival: Great British Energy – Nuclear. The former old government ...
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Montel News @montelnews.bsky.social · 5h
The market for long-term power purchase agreements (PPA) in the Nordic region has suffered a steep decline this year amid a slowdown in renewables build, consultancy Afry said on Tuesday. montelnews.com/news/1a2b3a2...
Nordic PPA market in steep decline amid “big challenges” – Afry
The consultancy’s internal overview shows that only Finland has seen PPAs with new power plants this year, group principal Lars Ragnar Solberg told Montel. “A key reason for the decline is that less n...
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Montel News @montelnews.bsky.social · 23h
Britain’s renewable energy output rose 9% to 31.9 TWh during July-September this year, the highest level for any Q3 period, driven by strong wind and “exceptional” solar generation, according to a report published by Montel Analytics on Tuesday. montelnews.com/news/f3881e2...
British renewable output hits Q3 record high as solar soars 31%
Solar generation in Q3 soared by 31% on the year to 6.2 TWh, driven by the “exceptional summer sunshine” during heatwaves in July and August, the data analysis firm said. Wind generation rose by 6% on...
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Montel News @montelnews.bsky.social · 23h
The EU is set to import 33% more LNG this winter than the last one, which would more than compensate for a projected 4bcm drop in pipeline supply, analytics firm Kpler said on Tuesday. montelnews.com/news/7074a70...
LNG to offset Russian piped gas loss in EU this winter – Kpler
EU to import 33% more LNG (56.8bcm) this winter – Kpler says extra LNG will offset ~4bcm pipeline loss and ease supply tightness.
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Montel News @montelnews.bsky.social · 1d
Biomethane will be “a key ally” in the EU’s goal of phasing out Russian energy imports and in terms of boosting industrial competitiveness, energy commissioner Dan Jorgensen said on Tuesday. montelnews.com/news/9ecc9d9...
Biomethane “key ally” in Russian energy exit plan – EC official
Biomethane – derived from purified bioas sourced from the likes of organic waste – could “especially” support European industries “that are hard to electrify”, he added in an address to a conference i...
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Montel News @montelnews.bsky.social · 1d
European TSO body Entso-E’s Iberian blackout report contained “inaccuracies or omissions”, while a “lack of transparency” in its investigation prevented a rigorous assessment of the incident, Spain’s utilities lobby Aelec said. montelnews.com/news/2c896d0...
Entso-E blackout report omits data, lacks transparency – lobby
The factual report failed to provide “key information” needed to carry out a full analysis and draw reliable conclusions to prevent further blackouts, Aelec said in a statement on Tuesday. The lobby s...
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Montel News @montelnews.bsky.social · 1d
European power prices could jump between 5–30% if grids fail to keep pace with a surge in demand from data centres amid the growth in AI, analysts told Montel this week. montelnews.com/news/127d758...
Power prices may jump up to 30% on AI-driven demand – analysts
AI-driven data centre surge could lift European power prices 5–30% if grids lag – analysts warn of higher costs, congestion and need for grid upgrades.
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Montel News @montelnews.bsky.social · 1d
Energy storage is vital for Europe’s electricity security and resilience, as well as for reducing price spikes and ensuring wind and solar output is fully used, EU energy commissioner Dan Jorgensen said on Tuesday. montelnews.com/news/f5b0db2...
Energy storage vital for Europe’s resilience – EC
“Energy storage is a strategic imperative for Europe,” he told the Energy Storage Global Conference in Brussels.  The European Commission’s grid package, expected on 25 November, would include proposa...
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Montel News @montelnews.bsky.social · 1d
French nuclear output rose nearly 7 TWh year on year to 269 TWh in January-September to reach its highest level for the period since 2019, EDF data showed on Tuesday. montelnews.com/news/6438bee...
French nuclear output hits 6-year high in Jan-Sept period
Furthermore, last month’s 29 TWh atomic production was the highest level for September since 2018, according to preliminary data from TSO RTE. Utility EDF said “good availability of the reactors in op...
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Montel News @montelnews.bsky.social · 1d
The operational power emissions of the EU’s top three polluting members – Germany, Poland and Italy – fell by 4% collectively during the first nine months of this year compared with 2024, according to Montel Analytics data. montelnews.com/news/2787e9f...
EU’s top 3 polluting states cut power emissions 4% on year
Their combined emissions from producing power reached 148.1m tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (tCO2e) between 1 January and 30 September, compared with 154.7m tCO2e during the same period last year...
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Montel News @montelnews.bsky.social · 1d
Ukraine may need to import at least 1.1bcm more gas than originally expected over the winter period, analysts told Montel on Monday, which was around 25% more than state-run energy firm Naftogaz predicted in September. montelnews.com/news/d721bb2...
Ukraine must boost gas import plans at least 25% – analysts
Ukraine may need at least 25% more gas imports this winter – analysts warn attacks on production could force extra purchases and tighten regional supply.
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Montel News @montelnews.bsky.social · 1d
Uncertainty over how the EU’s carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) will affect the price of power imports to Denmark from the UK may deter long-term capacity trading on the 1.4 GW Viking Link interconnector, said Danish TSO Energinet on Monday. montelnews.com/news/c15660d...
CBAM “uncertainty” may deter Denmark-UK power trade – TSO
“We have market participants calling us saying the situation is hugely frustrating. The uncertainty is probably the worst part,” Jeppe Hedegaard Munck, senior economist at Energinet, told Montel. When...
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Montel News @montelnews.bsky.social · 2d
Europe is on track for record high US LNG imports this winter, an analyst with a US LNG exporter has told Montel, while noting that delays to new liquefaction projects and cold weather in Asia are the main factors that could threaten this outlook. montelnews.com/news/cf0260a...
Europe on track for record high US LNG this winter – analyst
Europe set for record US LNG imports this winter – US acts as swing supplier, but outages, Asian demand or project delays could disrupt flows.
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Montel News @montelnews.bsky.social · 2d
Oil prices rose on Monday, after the US administration signalled an openness to conclude a deal with China calming fresh trade tensions between the two biggest crude consumers and economies. montelnews.com/news/c2db5dc...
Oil prices rise as Trump signals US-China trade deal
Oil prices rise as Trump signals US–China trade deal – Brent near $64/bbl as hopes of eased tensions and shifting crude flows lift markets.
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Montel News @montelnews.bsky.social · 2d
Roland Lescure was reappointed as economy, finance, industry and energy sovereignty minister late on Sunday, amid an ongoing political crisis in the country sparked by economic woes. montelnews.com/news/4cc922d...
France reappoints Lescure as energy minister amid political woes
Roland Lescure reappointed as France’s economy and energy minister – must pass a budget and push the overdue national energy roadmap amid political turmoil.
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Montel News @montelnews.bsky.social · 4d
A temporary fix by Spain’s TSO to limit voltage swings will effectively block renewable energy plants from participating in ancillary markets to help balance the grid, a lobby warned on Friday. montelnews.com/news/acb257c...
Spain voltage fix bars renewables in ancillary market – lobby
TSO Red Electrica has requested that power plants ramp up no faster than intervals of 15 minutes as part of temporary measures to curtail recent voltage spikes and following the ones that coincided wi...
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Montel News @montelnews.bsky.social · 4d
Europe’s market for power purchase agreements (PPAs) is at a turning point – with capacity contracted via deals in the period January-September down 70% on the year, an analyst said on Friday. montelnews.com/news/de83356...
European PPA volumes in Jan-Sep plunge 70% from 2024 – analyst
Buyers had become more cautious due to a challenging environment, Bruno Brunetti, head of environmental markets and PPA analysis at S&P Global, told an industry event in London, pointing to policy unc...
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Montel News @montelnews.bsky.social · 4d
Germany’s BNA energy regulator told Montel on Friday the approval of a key power line project between the north and south would “defend” its stance of retaining a single power price zone in the country. montelnews.com/news/f87d392...
North-south cable key to unified price zone – German regulator
The approval of the last 76km of the roughly 700km SuedLink cable could see it start delivering renewable power from wind‑rich northern Germany to the industrial centres in the south by 2028, it added...
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Montel News @montelnews.bsky.social · 5d
Norwegian consultancy Volue said EU carbon prices were unlikely to top EUR 100/t over the next two years due to strong renewables generation, contradicting what several analysts said this week. montelnews.com/news/ce40397...
EUAs unlikely to top EUR 100/t over next 2 years – Volue
“I think the potential increase in renewables production could surprise the market. People tend to think that the future will look like the present, but the next few years could be very different,” Vo...
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Montel News @montelnews.bsky.social · 5d
France should examine putting in place a regulated rate for the sale of all its power production, a cross-party parliamentary committee said. montelnews.com/news/a221f99...
MPs urge France to consider regulated power price
The country should study alternatives to its current flawed plan to sell all output on the wholesale market when the Arenh regulation expires on 1 January, its leaders said. That plan was like a “leak...
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Montel News @montelnews.bsky.social · 5d
The European Commission’s aim to centralise day-ahead market coupling is “shocking”, legally contestable and “a fix to something that is not broken”, the power exchanges Epex Spot and Nord Pool told Montel. montelnews.com/news/84e01d6...
Power exchanges “shocked” by EU market coupling proposal
“I can’t see the benefits of a single market coupling operator. It will cost a lot to build, it will take a long time and it will prevent maybe some new improvements and new products,” said Jean-Franc...
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Montel News @montelnews.bsky.social · 5d
The latest report on the Iberian blackout by European TSO group Entso-E failed to identify the root causes of the massive power outage, yet it provided some key clues and takeaways, analysts said. montelnews.com/news/501218e...
No “silver bullet” in latest Iberian blackout report
Entso‑E report on Iberian blackout offers clues but no root cause – limited distribution visibility and higher gas use flagged, analysts warn.
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