ICIS - energy podcasts

Plans to decommission a number of power plants in Belgium and Poland have been put on hold this week. News editor Fionn O'Raghallaigh speaks to market experts Joachim Moxon and Karolina Zagrodna about what impact these developments will have on prices. Listen here.

European Gas Markets Deputy Editor Emma Slawinski interviews British and Noridc gas market reporter Thomas Rodgers about what the decline in the oil price means for North Sea gas production.

ICIS gas reporters Julie Fischer and Marcello Kolax discuss the price drop on calendar contracts on the German NCG natural gas market and the potential knock-on effect on supply in the first quarter of 2016.

A one-year delay to the implementation of MiFID II moved closer this week as MEPs softened their stance on the issue. ICIS editors Tom Marzec-Manser and Fionn O’Raghallaigh discuss the potential benefits of a delay to traders.

European utility hedging rates trended down year on year in Q3, while fossil fuel-fired generation picked up. ICIS carbon and power specialists Ben Lee, Silvia Molteni and Saloni Sardana discuss the reasons for this and outlook going forward.

Prices in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), an emissions trading system applicable to northeast states in the USA, have been rising lately. ICIS carbon reporters Ben Lee and McGraw discuss here.

This week, the UK government announced plans to phase out coal-fired power generation while in the Netherlands gas production from the country’s biggest field Groningen was temporarily reduced. Ben Lee talks to Henry Evans and Jake Horslen about the impact of these announcements.

German gas and power markets have been bearish this week in spite of cuts to gas supplies to the country and an increase in the winter power reserve. Editor Isabel Save speaks to German market experts Julie Fisher and Laura Raus about why this has happened.

ICIS LNG experts Ed Cox, Ranjana Kaushal and Ruth Liao speak about US interest in delivering LNG to the European market and whether there is sufficient demand in Europe for these deliveries.

The south eastern Europe and Turkish electricity markets are undergoing a major period of transformation as a number of new and upcoming power exchanges are launched in the region. ICIS energy reporters Sophie Udubasceanu, Aura Sabadus and Irina Peltegova discuss the impact this is having on the development of the over-the-counter markets.

The National Grid issued its first system warning since 2012 on Wednesday. ICIS managing editor Isabel Save speaks to European Daily Electricity Markets editor Jamie Stewart about its impact on the UK power market, while European Spot Gas Markets deputy editor Ben Samuel discusses how it affected the British gas market.

ICIS reporters Ben Samuel, Miriam Siers and Claire Wilson discuss changes to capacity booking mechanisms in European gas and power markets and how this will affect energy traders.

UN-held climate talks, known as COP21, in Paris in December could lead to a global emissions reduction deal for the period after 2020. This could have a major impact on carbon markets. Lead carbon reporter Ben Lee discusses the implications of the talks with senior analyst Yann Andreassen from ICIS analytics division Tschach Solutions based in Germany.

European coal and gas prices hit new lows in week 43 while carbon prices reached their highest level in three years. ICIS Energy lead carbon reporter Ben Lee discusses these price movements with coal reporter Stacy Irish, gas reporter Thomas Rodgers and EDCM editor Silvia Molteni.

In today’s podcast ICIS journalists discuss the gas market liberalisation reform in Ukraine that came into effect from 1 October. The new rules are still far from being fully implemented. Ukrainian experts Elizabeth Stonor, Ekaterina Kravtsova and Marcello Kolax discuss the implications of the reform for the gas market.

Italy’s electricity transmission system operator Terna hopes to introduce a capacity market in 2016, where it will auction options products annually. This means payments will be linked to available capacity of plants rather than their electricity output. Its 2016 deadline will have to depend on EU state aid approval. ICIS Italian market reporters Riccardo Patrian and Matilde Mereghetti examine the...

Week 42 brought more certainty about Russian winter gas flows to Europe, but concerns have emerged about the privatisation of Turkish power generation assets. ICIS Energy lead carbon reporter Ben Lee discusses these developments with European Spot Gas Markets editor Tom Marzec-Manser and Turkish Energy Hub Daily editor Aura Sabadus.

A recent Dutch parliament vote promoting a new cut to natural gas production at the Groningen cluster impacted trading on gas and power markets across Europe last week. ICIS deputy news editor Miriam Siers talks to deputy gas editor Ben Samuel about the vote’s consequences for the benchmark Dutch TTF market. LNG expert Ludovic Aldersley discusses recent updates on the Baltic LNG market.

ICIS Spot Gas Market’s editor Tom Marzec-Manser interviews electricity market reporter Joachim Moxon on the impact of Belgium nuclear outages and Ekaterina Kravtsova on a new winter gas package between Russian Gazprom and Ukraine’s Naftogaz.

ICIS Energy’s lead carbon reporter Ben Lee interviews news editor Fionn O’Raghallaigh on impending changes to financial regulations under MiFID II and how they are likely to affect energy companies.

ICIS Energy deputy news editor Miriam Siers and ICIS's LNG reports deputy editor Ludovic Aldersley discuss the emergence of Australia as a key LNG exporter and its impact on the global market.

ICIS Energy’s news editor Fionn O’Raghallaigh talks to UK gas reporter Albert Evans about the forthcoming change to the UK gas day. Electricity market reporter Joachim Moxon discusses the release this week of ACER’s non-binding opinion on capacity allocation at the Austria-Germany border.

ICIS Energy’s deputy news editor Miriam Siers interviews European Gas Markets deputy editor Emma Slawinski and electricity market reporter Joachim Moxon on changes that are being made in France and Belgium to comply with changing energy laws.

US president Barack Obama this summer announced the Clean Power Plan to tackle emissions from the power sector in the country. ICIS carbon reporters Ben Lee and Dan McGraw discuss what the plan is and what it means for US carbon markets.

ICIS energy deputy news editor Miriam Siers, gas expert Julie Fisher and deputy editor of the Global LNG markets report Ludovic Aldersley discuss the recent Gazprom gas tender, which failed to attract expected interest from market participants, and the implication of the price of Russian gas for LNG in Europe.