Energy
US natural gas hedging: 2012 outlook
Scanning the horizon
Carbon markets facing uncertain new year after Durban
What next for carbon markets?
Iran to remain biggest short-term risk to oil prices in 2012: analysts
The developing situation in Iran will continue to be the biggest short-term driver of oil prices, as the EU prepares to potentially join the US in sanctions on Iranian crude and the closure of the strategic Strait of Hormuz remains a threat, say oil…
Exelon-Constellation merger edges closer to completion
On the back of further regulatory approvals, the creation of the largest competitive energy provider in the US is now looming ever closer
SG CIB closes US power business - rivals point to dollar funding constraints
Former RBS Sempra Commodities business closed just 11 months after acquisition
Gas users lock in low long-term prices
Long-term price risk management deals are becoming more popular with utilities and regulators as a way to lock in low natural gas prices
Energy Risk Environmental Rankings 2011
It’s not easy being green
Special report: carbon trading
This month's special report looks at carbon trading with a particular focus on the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS).
Will aviation give the EU ETS a lift next year?
Giving carbon a lift?
Can the EU Emissions Trading Scheme survive Europe's debt crisis?
Confidence crisis for carbon?
Q&A – RWE npower's Volker Beckers
Sharing the load
Outlook for UK natural gas
Where to next for the UK nat gas curve?
Singapore looks to electricity futures market
Singapore is moving closer to the creation of an electricity futures market, according to comments made by the head of the national energy regulator.
UK power chiefs call for more clarity on UK’s Electricity Market Reform
With the UK's power sector estimated to need some £200 billion ($317 billion) worth of investment in the next 10-15 years, much is riding on the Electricity Market Reform, which so far lacks detail, say top power executives
EC committed to providing clarity on supply and trade transparency rules, says DG Energy policy expert
Clarifications on two sets of data transparency rules for European energy markets are in the works, according to European Commission policy expert
RWE npower: Challenges to UK power sector could provide revenue source for end-users
A potential revenue stream will open up over the next few years for energy-intensive corporations in the UK to sell back-up power to fill supply gaps left by retired plants, says RWE npower
Cutting edge: valuing and dynamically hedging natural gas storage
Hedging the extrinsic value of a natural gas storage
Ferc to re-examine wider impact of California power crisis
Ferc to re-examine wider impact of California power crisis
Video: European power market participants bullish on market coupling
Participants within Europe's electricity markets expect market coupling to continue apace in the next few years, making a European-wide integrated power market possible by 2014
Energy Risk Europe: Oil up $4/bbl for every 1% hike in China, India oil imports: report
New research provides evidence that a relationship exists between the demand for oil from China and India and Brent crude prices
Energy Risk Europe: eurozone sovereign debt fears could exacerbate oil supply problems, says Currie
Fears that the sovereign debt crisis will lead to global financial shock is causing oil producers to reduce inventory and cut back investment – creating a potential supply problem in future, warns Goldman Sachs commodities research head
Including global airlines in EU emissions scheme is legal, says EU court
Preliminary opinion of advocate-general says that US and Asian airlines cannot opt out of EU emissions trading next year
Q&A: Kwame Okyere-Mensuo, Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning, Ghana
Kwame Okyere-Mensuo, technical adviser at Ghana’s Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning, talks about the country’s pioneering import hedging programme, as well as the hedging of output from the Jubilee field