Podcast: ICIS discusses the week’s energy news highlights

Robert Songer

21-Oct-2016

Up to 5GW of thermal capacity could return to the UK wholesale market by the start of winter 2017. ICIS experts Ben Lee and Henry Evans discuss this development and its likely effect on the UK electricity market.

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