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
- 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
- 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
- Mar 3, 2021
- 5 min
Standardising the un-standardisable?
By now you might have read a few headlines about the voluntary carbon market (VCM) and various efforts to scale it up and make it more...
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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
- Dec 17, 2020
- 4 min
UK ETS: It's (officially) a thing
(see edit at end of blog) So it’s official – the UK will launch its own emissions trading system in 2021. Of course, it won’t actually...
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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
- 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
- Jul 29, 2020
- 5 min
Bridging the gap?
About a month ago I wrote about how carbon is embroiled in a “Fundamentals vs Technicals Deathmatch”, and from the vantage point of the...
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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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