Laurence Walker

Tilbury B's charismatic plant manager, Nigel Staves, saw a future in pellets. Wood pellets, a compressed form of woody biomass, would account for 100% of the burn “in the future”, he said, from just 10% at the time. Three years later the plant was shut down.

Installed electrolysis capacity in the EU could reach 0.7 GW by the end of the year, if all proposed projects materialise on time, the IEA said in its annual global hydrogen review. However, this would fall short of the 2024 target of 6 GW set out in the

The regulation, which became effective on 4 August, places new monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) obligations on importers of gas, oil and coal in the EU to provide information about the source of their imports.

(Montel) Le nombre de décisions finales d'investissement (FID) dans des projets d'électrolyse pour la production d'hydrogène renouvelable a quadruplé l'an dernier dans l'UE pour dépasser 2 GW, mais le risque d'annulations reste élevé, a déclaré l'Agence internationale de l'énergie (AIE) mercredi.

“The Asia-Pacific region is expected to account for almost 45% of incremental global gas demand,” it said in its latest Global Gas Security Review, published on Thursday.

(Montel) European carbon prices slipped to six-month lows in Thursday trading as easing gas shortage concerns ahead of winter filtered into related markets, with some analysts anticipating further losses.

“My base-case scenario is still no flows next year, or a slim chance of them continuing,” said Yuriy Onyshkiv, a Kyiv-based gas market analyst at LSEG.

“The end of Russian transit flows via Ukraine could encourage the buyers affected to up their activity on AggregateEU, although they may find it as easy, or easier, to procure spot gas directly from EU hubs themselves,” said Jake Horslen, senior analyst at Energy Aspects.

“Coal plants have been pushed out of the merit order in 2023 and 2024 as a result of an increase in renewables and high CO2 prices,” said Andre Bosschaart, analytics manager at Montel Analytics.

“LNG is very important these days,” said Icis analyst Robert Songer, noting the biggest risks for supply this winter would be cold weather and major production outages. “We’ve been lucky for the last couple of years that we’ve had fairly mild winters,” he said, adding however a shift towards a