The Day-ahead basis strengthened this week, giving shippers incentive to increase gas flows through the Interconnector pipeline to Belgium, which was pricing...

German utilities are hopeful of price concessions in their negotiations with Russia's major gas producer Gazprom, following a deal reached last week by Italy's...

Energias de Portugal (EDP) saw its electricity generation output in the Iberian market rise by 1.2% year on year to 8.0TWh in the second quarter of 2011,...

The loss of two nuclear reactors pushed German utility EnBW deep into the red in the first six months of the year, in the wake of the German government's...

The redrafted framework on capacity allocation and congestion management (CACM) by the European Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) does...

NBP price spreads have reduced the amount injected into UK storage in the past seven days. Within-day and Day-ahead contracts have continually traded at...

Germany will need to transpose the phase III allocation rules in the EU emissions trading system (EU ETS) into national law over the coming weeks to be able...

Good availability, low demand and moderate summer temperatures further pressured French and German wholesale electricity prompt levels in week 30, with the...

Hungarian state-owned power incumbent MVM has stated that it is in talks with Hungarian power exchange HUPX to become a market maker. "We confirm that the...

Italian electricity consumption is likely to increase year on year in 2011, according to demand patterns since January, transmission system operator (TSO)...

The first in-depth study to measure the potential impact of wave power generation is underway, and scientists hope it will lead to cheaper marine energy...

The number of requests for solar-energy installation incentives in Italy is five times higher than was foreseen when the nation's incentive legislation was...

Liechtenstein has not brought any charges yet in the ongoing probe into money laundering through its national carbon registry, according to the country's...

Despite the continuous lack of activity in the physical coal market, prices inched higher across the two main hubs in week 30, spurred mainly by fears of...

Direct Energie's decision this week to acquire a sizeable chunk of Poweo from Austria's Verbund will give the two French alternative-energy suppliers a better...

NetherlandsDutch energy company Eneco is to launch a 49MW biomass electricity plant in the Delfzijl port area in the Netherlands, it was reported...

Eolia Renovables Group has secured €153.3m to construct three wind farms in Spain with a total capacity of 111.5MW, according to local reports.The...

Turkey's Privatisation Agency is to revise the way it awards assets, analysts have told ICIS Heren. The main concern is that awards should take into consideration...

Near-curve contracts on the UK wholesale electricity curve succumbed to a host of bearish drivers in week 30, pressured by rapid declines on the French power...

British and Belgian regulators Ofgem and CREG launched a consultation on Friday to gauge the market's views on the design of a new cap-and-floor system....