Best in Energy – 17 February 2023

Europe’s steel producers and decarbonisation

Steel and potential decarbonisation pathways

U.S. SPR sales and purchasers

Germany’s last nuclear power generators

GAIL wants to buy equity in LNG exporter

EUROPE’s gas futures prices for deliveries in March 2023 have fallen below €50 per megawatt-hour for the first time since December 2021, before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Prices have fallen from €177 at the beginning of the winter heating season at the start of October and a record €338 in late August. Energy-intensive industrial closures, conservation measures, the impact of previous high prices, reduced LNG purchasing from China and South Asia, and a mild winter in northwest Europe all combined to avert feared shortages or a price spike during winter 2022/23:

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John Kemp

Energy analyst, public policy specialist, amateur historian