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Montel News @montelnews.bsky.social · 19h
Romanian gas and oil producer Romgaz is taking legal action to block regulations linked to the EU’s carbon injection capacity objective, it said on Friday. montelnews.com/news/94a42ca...
Romanian producer takes legal action over EU carbon target
An action filed in the EU’s Court of Justice requests the annulment of acts that require oil and gas producers in the bloc to ensure a combined carbon storage capacity of 50m tonnes/year by 2030. Base...
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Montel News @montelnews.bsky.social · 20h
Building wind farms throughout Finland instead of concentrating them on the country’s west coast would help to stabilise electricity prices while making new investments more profitable, said an academic study published on Friday. montelnews.com/news/84efa5d...
Spacing out Finnish wind farms would boost investment – study
Spreading wind farms across Finland – rather than clustering on the west coast – cuts price cannibalisation, lowers volatility and boosts investment returns, study finds.
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Montel News @montelnews.bsky.social · 20h
Italian battery storage capacity was up 50% year on year in September, totalling 17.4 MWh, driven by large-scale utility projects across roughly 849,000 units, TSO Terna said on Friday. montelnews.com/news/7248f7c...
Italy battery storage surges 50% year on year in September
Italy’s battery storage capacity rises 50% YoY to 17.4 MWh in Sept – renewables growth and large utility projects drive the surge, Terna says.
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Montel News @montelnews.bsky.social · 20h
The heads of offshore wind developers Iberdrola and Ocean Winds called for “deep changes” in rules for future French offshore wind tenders after an auction failed to attract any bidders. montelnews.com/news/637a90a...
French offshore wind industry urges changes after tender fails
French offshore wind chiefs demand sweeping tender reforms after a 1.2GW auction attracted no bids and a 1.5GW round drew only two offers – citing high guarantees and indexation flaws.
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Montel News @montelnews.bsky.social · 21h
Standardisation is driving liquidity in Europe’s market for power purchase agreements (PPAs) of between one and three years, offsetting a slowdown in traditional, longer-term deals, a renewable energy specialist told Montel. montelnews.com/news/63ed74c...
Standardised products seen to boost PPA interest
Standardised PPA products boost 1–3 year market liquidity – traders favour shorter, tradeable hedges for renewables as long‑term PPAs slow, says FlexPower.
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Montel News @montelnews.bsky.social · 22h
The guarantee of origin (GO) market is set to attract growing interest from new entrants and increased trading activity, even though prices remain under pressure due to oversupply, European power exchange Epex Spot told Montel. montelnews.com/news/eab8f82...
Epex “optimistic” about GO market growth despite low prices
Trading volumes had expanded significantly since Epex Spot launched its first monthly auction in 2022, said Emine Duygu Uyar, head of environmental markets at the exchange. “I’m quite optimistic for t...
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Montel News @montelnews.bsky.social · 1d
Germany will tell the European Commission by the end of October that it will keep a single bidding zone rather than splitting it, the economy and climate action ministry said late on Thursday. montelnews.com/news/fda3587...
Germany to reject bidding zone split to EC by end of October
Germany will tell the EC by end‑October it will keep a single bidding zone – submitting an alternative action plan to tackle congestion instead of Entso‑E’s split.
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Montel News @montelnews.bsky.social · 1d
Legislation to define low-carbon hydrogen, produced from fossil fuels with carbon capture or nuclear, passed a key step in the European Parliament on Thursday passing a vote by its energy committee. montelnews.com/news/2211992...
EU law on low-carbon hydrogen passes key step
Parliament energy committee backs low‑carbon hydrogen rules – covering gas+CCS and nuclear production, import criteria and a 2026 nuclear methodology review.
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Montel News @montelnews.bsky.social · 1d
EU energy ministers are expected to back a full ban on Russian gas imports from 1 January 2028 in a formal negotiating position to be adopted on Monday, an EU diplomatic source said on Thursday. montelnews.com/news/4e036be...
EU ministers set to back full Russian gas ban from 2028
EU ministers to back full ban on Russian gas from 1 Jan 2028 – council text allows limited short‑term contracts and extra time for landlocked states.
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Montel News @montelnews.bsky.social · 1d
The chairman of French TSO RTE, Xavier Piechaczyk, warned on Thursday of the danger to the grid of shutting down renewable units too abruptly during periods of negative prices. montelnews.com/news/4718a94...
“Abrupt” green curtailment threatens French grid – TSO head
For example, on 1 April, 9 GW of the country’s green generation – equivalent to nine nuclear reactors – was stopped at the same time, causing “major” frequency jumps, Piechaczyk told the Colloque Fran...
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Montel News @montelnews.bsky.social · 1d
Equipment to correct recent voltage issues in the Spanish power system could take three years to deploy, prompting TSO Red Electrica to request emergency measures amid growing “unease” about the oscillations, an Afry analyst said. montelnews.com/news/4dbc6fd...
Spain may need 3 years to resolve voltage problems – Afry
Spain may need three years to deploy fixes for voltage problems – TSO seeks emergency measures as rapid renewables growth strains grid, Afry warns.
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Montel News @montelnews.bsky.social · 1d
A European Commission plan to centralise day-ahead power market coupling could remove the “structural” problem of exchanges competing and cooperating at the same time, experts told Montel. montelnews.com/news/603799e...
Central market coupling to solve “structural” power exchange issue
EC plan for central day‑ahead market coupling could resolve exchanges’ competing‑while‑cooperating problem – experts back a single market coupling operator despite opposition.
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Montel News @montelnews.bsky.social · 1d
Italy faces severe challenges in decarbonising its industrial sector to reach net zero by 2050, particularly amid the rapid growth of energy-intensive data centres, said TSOs Terna and Snam in a joint report. montelnews.com/news/a717f5b...
Italian industry faces challenging path to net zero – TSOs
“The path toward decarbonisation [of the industrial sector] is extremely complex,” they added in the study published late on Wednesday. This also needed to be balanced with the requirement for industr...
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Montel News @montelnews.bsky.social · 2d
MEPs agreed on Thursday to bring forward a ban on Russian gas imports to January 2027, a year earlier than proposed by the European Commission. montelnews.com/news/d3a57d2...
MEPs agree to bring forward Russian gas exit plan by 1 year
MEPs back bringing forward EU ban on Russian gas to 1 Jan 2027 – tighter origin checks, authorisations and penalties set the stage for Council talks.
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Montel News @montelnews.bsky.social · 2d
A new Russian drone and missile attack overnight has disabled gas production sites operated by utility DTEK in Ukraine’s Poltava region, the sixth such barrage since the start of the month. montelnews.com/news/f708f06...
Latest Russian bombardment disables Ukraine gas production sites
Russian drone and missile attack disables DTEK gas sites in Poltava – latest strike deepens Ukraine’s winter gas import needs and financing pressures.
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Montel News @montelnews.bsky.social · 2d
Several small-scale hydropower plants in Norway could go bankrupt if the government goes ahead with a plan to expose them to the same resource tax as larger plants from 2027, a lobby group warned on Wednesday. montelnews.com/news/43af436...
Norway tax plan “devastating” for small-scale hydropower – lobby
The minority Labour government wants to expose all hydropower plants with a capacity above 1.5 MW to the resource tax from 2027, lowering the threshold from 10 MW currently, said the Norwegian Associa...
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Montel News @montelnews.bsky.social · 2d
LNG shipping to Europe via the Suez Canal is unlikely to pick up significantly in the near-term as exporters and vessel-owners err on the side of caution following the recent Israel-Hamas peace deal, analysts said. montelnews.com/news/ceb7fa4...
“Early days” for return to LNG shipping via Suez Canal – analysts
“It will be some time before we see any sign of normalisation,” Burak Cetinok, head of research at Arrow Shipbroking Group, told Montel on Wednesday, noting the situation was still “very fragile”.  “[...
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Montel News @montelnews.bsky.social · 2d
European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen on Wednesday called on Serbia to accelerate its alignment with EU foreign policy, particularly on sanctions on Russian gas. montelnews.com/news/a0129eb...
Von der Leyen urges Serbia to join EU sanctions on Russian gas
During a visit to Belgrade, Von der Leyen emphasised that Serbia’s future “lies within the EU” but more concrete steps were needed to meet the bloc’s expectations. It is pressing ahead with extending ...
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Montel News @montelnews.bsky.social · 2d
Italy’s battery storage sector is set for rapid expansion following the first capacity tender last month but only the strongest projects are likely to survive, risking stranded assets, industry players told Montel this week. montelnews.com/news/c446c55...
Italy battery scheme like being asked to compete in “Olympics”
Italy’s oversubscribed battery tender favours only elite projects – weaker schemes risk stranded assets as developers pivot to tolling and capacity market routes.
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Montel News @montelnews.bsky.social · 2d
Russia hit Ukrainian gas production facilities with drones overnight, including a combined heat and power plant (CHP) operated by state-run energy firm Naftogaz, the company said on Wednesday. montelnews.com/news/2c590d3...
Russia hits Ukraine gas facilities in 3rd major attack in a week
Russia strikes Ukrainian gas facilities, including a Naftogaz CHP – third major attack in a week, raising winter supply concerns and fuelling extra import needs.
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Montel News @montelnews.bsky.social · 3d
Europe’s power market is heading into a challenging winter marked by persistent negative prices, fragile gas balances and weather-related risks, Montel Analytics said in its latest quarterly report on Wednesday. montelnews.com/news/bfd941f...
EU power market faces challenging winter – Montel Analytics
Europe heads into a tough winter with persistent negative prices, fragile gas balances and weather risks – Montel Analytics warns.
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Montel News @montelnews.bsky.social · 3d
Trading via the EU’s cross-border platform for balancing power – Picasso – is “like gambling” and was akin to being “blindfolded”, with the mechanism creating unmanageable risk, traders told Montel this week. montelnews.com/news/d53c6cb...
Trading via Picasso mechanism “like gambling” – traders
Picasso balancing platform causes extreme, unpredictable price swings – traders call it “like gambling”, blaming testing gaps, low liquidity and retroactive price fixes.
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Montel News @montelnews.bsky.social · 3d
Column of the Week - Sibling rivalry: nuclear and renewables compete for Britain’s family silver montelnews.com/news/677e953...
Sibling rivalry: nuclear and renewables compete for Britain’s family silver
Having a new member join the family is always exciting. During a recent spending review, UK chancellor Rachel Reeves announced a new arrival: Great British Energy – Nuclear. The former old government ...
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Montel News @montelnews.bsky.social · 3d
The market for long-term power purchase agreements (PPA) in the Nordic region has suffered a steep decline this year amid a slowdown in renewables build, consultancy Afry said on Tuesday. montelnews.com/news/1a2b3a2...
Nordic PPA market in steep decline amid “big challenges” – Afry
The consultancy’s internal overview shows that only Finland has seen PPAs with new power plants this year, group principal Lars Ragnar Solberg told Montel. “A key reason for the decline is that less n...
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Montel News @montelnews.bsky.social · 3d
Britain’s renewable energy output rose 9% to 31.9 TWh during July-September this year, the highest level for any Q3 period, driven by strong wind and “exceptional” solar generation, according to a report published by Montel Analytics on Tuesday. montelnews.com/news/f3881e2...
British renewable output hits Q3 record high as solar soars 31%
Solar generation in Q3 soared by 31% on the year to 6.2 TWh, driven by the “exceptional summer sunshine” during heatwaves in July and August, the data analysis firm said. Wind generation rose by 6% on...
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