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
- May 25
- 5 min
Ooooh! Look at that cookie jar!
Last week the European Commission announced its intention to bring roughly 200-250 million EUAs out of the Market Stability Reserve (MSR)...
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Alessandro Vitelli
- May 19
- 8 min
Can Brussels chase the speculators out of the EU ETS?
Party coordinators in European Parliament’s environment committee want to clamp down on speculative traders participating in the EU ETS....
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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 22, 2021
- 4 min
“Nothing surpasses the beauty and elegance of a bad idea.”
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...
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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
- May 10, 2021
- 6 min
The next ETS arriving at Platform 4....
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...
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Alessandro Vitelli
- Apr 16, 2021
- 5 min
"Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night."
Compliance season is almost over. A large proportion of industrials have by now completed their 2020 purchases, and the market seems to...
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Alessandro Vitelli
- Apr 1, 2021
- 2 min
Carbon Expo 2006 – or was it?
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...
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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 12, 2021
- 3 min
Brussels gets twitchy
I have edited and updated this blog to add some thoughts on Article 29a, and to include some information from Carbon Pulse, who repost...
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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
- Jan 8, 2021
- 4 min
Expect the unexpected?
“How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life.” (Marcus Aurelius) Unless you’re an industrial...
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Alessandro Vitelli
- Nov 27, 2020
- 4 min
Phase 4's starting pistol misfires
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...
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Alessandro Vitelli
- Nov 18, 2020
- 3 min
Has EU carbon rounded the corner?
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...
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