Last week the European Commission announced its intention to bring roughly 200-250 million EUAs out of the Market Stability Reserve (MSR)...

Party coordinators in European Parliament’s environment committee want to clamp down on speculative traders participating in the EU ETS....

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...

It’s been a year of tumbling records and high anxiety as carbon prices have explored uncharted territory while natural gas and...

Edit: December 8 – I've added a third possible interpretation of the Article 29a calculation at the bottom of this post. A few people...

It hasn’t taken long for governments to notice the EU ETS, spitting out revenue at the rate of half a billion euros a week, and get the...

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...

(This article was originally published on September 8 on Carbon Pulse). Despite all the excitement around EUA prices topping €60 for the...

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...

Now that EU ETS compliance is over with for another year, the market can metaphorically wash its hands and move on to the next course of...

Compliance season is almost over. A large proportion of industrials have by now completed their 2020 purchases, and the market seems to...

The story goes that in 2006, the first set of verified emissions data leaked out about a week before the due date, during the annual...

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 –...

A month ago I reported on the rumours that the European Commission was considering action to limit the influence of speculative traders...

I have edited and updated this blog to add some thoughts on Article 29a, and to include some information from Carbon Pulse, who repost...

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...

“How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life.” (Marcus Aurelius) Unless you’re an industrial...

The last week has seen a couple of significant changes to the predicted supply schedule for the start of EU ETS Phase 4, and while they...

We are now in the last four weeks of the Dec 20’s reign as the front-year futures contract. There are fewer than 25 daily auctions left...

The worm is turning. European power economics are shifting in favour of coal, especially at the front of the curve, and this might be...