Alessandro Vitelli
Same old August.... or is it?
European carbon prices have followed their now-traditional course in August by rising on the back of the 50% reduction in auction...
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Alessandro Vitelli
- Apr 1
- 3 min
Deceived wisdom
It’s been a somewhat wild start to 2022. As the energy index below shows, we had a relatively calm start to the year before Russia...
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Alessandro Vitelli
- Dec 22, 2021
- 8 min
What a long, strange trip 2021 has been
It’s been a year of tumbling records and high anxiety as carbon prices have explored uncharted territory while natural gas and...
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Alessandro Vitelli
- Dec 7, 2021
- 5 min
Trigger-happy
Edit: December 8 – I've added a third possible interpretation of the Article 29a calculation at the bottom of this post. A few people...
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Alessandro Vitelli
- Sep 18, 2021
- 6 min
Is it over?
So the latest peak in European carbon prices is over. EUAs climbed to a record of €63.35 on September 8 and have settled back at around...
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Alessandro Vitelli
- Sep 15, 2021
- 4 min
What does the current price of EUAs actually represent?
(This article was originally published on September 8 on Carbon Pulse). Despite all the excitement around EUA prices topping €60 for the...
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Alessandro Vitelli
- Aug 10, 2021
- 4 min
Carbon’s summer of– NATURAL GAS!
Carbon’s steady progress to the top of the energy agenda, thanks to its 140% rally since November 2 last year, has been brought to a halt...
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Alessandro Vitelli
- Mar 28, 2021
- 3 min
2021 BC (beyond coal)
Over the past few months it’s become apparent that an increasing number of people believe that the first part of the EU ETS’ work –...
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Alessandro Vitelli
- Mar 13, 2021
- 3 min
Everybody wants some
A month ago I reported on the rumours that the European Commission was considering action to limit the influence of speculative traders...
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Alessandro Vitelli
- Feb 3, 2021
- 4 min
May you live in interesting times
Well, this has been an interesting week. In the space of 72 hours carbon has risen 14%, reached a new all-time record and if things keep...
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Alessandro Vitelli
- Oct 29, 2020
- 4 min
All change?
The worm is turning. European power economics are shifting in favour of coal, especially at the front of the curve, and this might be...
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Alessandro Vitelli
- Oct 11, 2020
- 8 min
Autumn stock-take
It's officially autumn; compliance buyers are weighing up the choice between doing their 2020 buying now or waiting till the spring, fuel...
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Alessandro Vitelli
- Aug 24, 2020
- 4 min
A maturing market, but less of it?
In principle, carbon emissions markets are self-destructive. Once the cap on emissions has been lowered to zero, or as near to zero as it...
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Alessandro Vitelli
- Jun 1, 2020
- 3 min
May 2020 by the numbers
May saw a steady rally in EUA prices, with the Dec 20 contract climbing back near the levels it was at in March before the Great Covid...
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Alessandro Vitelli
- Apr 13, 2020
- 5 min
Corona-pocalypse and pandem-onium
We're now two weeks into April, over a month since the lockdown began in Italy, a little over two weeks since it began in the UK, and...
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Alessandro Vitelli
- Apr 1, 2020
- 3 min
A record-setting month for the EUETS
The EUETS set all sorts of records in March...
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