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(Montel) Italy's energy regulator Arera has fined utility A2A EUR 5m after finding it responsible for manipulating the wholesale power market by

(Montel) Europe must adapt its energy system with this year's extreme weather “a wake-up call, an economist told Montel in light of the current supply crunch affecting the region due to an extreme heatwave and drought.

(Montel) Italy's ongoing drought has caused major gas plants to cut output, hitting around 3% of thermal generation, with no significant rain forecast to raise Po basin levels until late August, analysts told Montel on Monday.

(Montel) Italian power prices this week remained below early-August levels as lower summer demand offset heat-related constraints on hydropower, thermal generation and imports, analysts and traders told Montel on Thursday.

(Montel) Italy's new capacity market rules are likely to make southern regions less attractive for battery developers and shift investment towards the regulated Macse auction scheme, analysts told Montel on Friday.

(Montel) Corporate pushback against mandatory hourly consumption and generation under the greenhouse gas protocol (GHGP) is likely to slow rather

(Montel) Italy can afford to rely more heavily on its own gas stocks this winter due to healthy supplies, reducing the country's needs for imports

(Montel) The dropping of mandatory hourly matching under the Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHGP), the global emission reporting standard, would reduce

(Montel) Extreme summer heat, drought and low river flows are exposing growing risks to Europe's energy systems, underscoring the need to adapt power generation, grids and storage to climate change, experts told Montel this week.

(Montel) Italian TSO Snam's CEO Agostino Scornajenchi on Wednesday called for a shift from energy transition to “energy integration”, amid record global gas demand, geopolitical shocks and rising electricity needs.