Hormuz crisis: Outlook remains highly uncertain
The Strait of Hormuz crisis has reshaped the outlook for global energy markets, with uncertainty over LNG flows, European gas storage and ge...
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Montel Weekly - market insights from people in the know. Montel Weekly is a podcast dedicated to energy news from markets in Europe and beyond. Every week we invite key industry experts to s...
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Norway faces a dry, expensive winter
Reservoir levels in southern Norway are at their lowest for 30 years raising concerns about power prices in the months ahead and the Nordic...
Europe feels the heat: Extreme weather becomes the norm
Extreme heat and drought are putting Europe’s power system under pressure on close to an annual basis. Low river levels and high water tempe...
Europe’s energy transition: Full speed ahead?
After a summer spent exploring the technologies, markets and policies shaping Europe's energy transition, the final episode of the Plugged I...
Keeping pace with power hungry data centres
Artificial intelligence is transforming the global economy at extraordinary speed, but it's also creating one of the biggest new sources of...
Market design: Driving or derailing the transition?
Europe's electricity system is changing fast. As renewables continue to reshape the power mix, new challenges are emerging; from negative pr...
Grids: Easing bottlenecks
Europe has made remarkable progress in developing renewable energy, but grids – both at distribution and transmission level, are struggling...
Renewables Roll-Out: Saturation Reached?
Europe is developing green energy at lighting speed. But as solar and wind generation reaches record levels, new challenges are emerging acr...
State of Play: Where Are We Now?
Europe's energy transition has delivered record renewable deployment and significant emissions reductions, but a new wave of geopolitical in...
Can Britain Still Deliver Net Zero? Chris Stark on “ungumming the system” and the UK's Energy Future
The UK has set one of the most ambitious energy targets in Europe: a fully clean power system by 2030. But achieving it will require a trans...
Data Centre Boom: catalysts and constraints
Europe is experiencing a rush of investment into data centres as artificial intelligence, cloud computing and digital services drive a new w...
Finland - a power success story?
As Europe grapples with energy security concerns, expectations of rising electricity demand, and the rapid growth of AI-driven data centres,...
Sweden’s energy spat with Brussels
Sweden's dispute with Brussels over electricity market rules is quickly becoming one of the biggest political energy stories in Europe. At t...
Feeling the heat: Preparing Europe's grids for summer
Europe's power systems are facing a new reality. As heatwaves become more frequent and intense, electricity networks are coming under growin...
How many wake up calls does Europe need?
The US-Israeli led war in Iran and the prolonged disruption in the Strait of Hormuz is once again exposing Europe’s vulnerability to global...
Celebrating curtailment: Are negative prices really that bad?
Negative power prices are becoming increasingly commonplace in Europe’s electricity markets. With solar generation soaring and renewable bui...
Snorkelling for negative prices
Norway - and the Nordic power system more generally - have seen fewer instances of negative prices than their continental counterparts in re...
Gas storage: Complacency or Crunch?
Europe may have emerged from winter without a full-scale gas crisis; but with storage levels unusually low, geopolitical tensions rising, an...
Reshaping French energy
From the streets of Paris to the heart of Europe’s energy regulation, this episode explores how geopolitics, market design and infrastructur...
“Strange” prices rattle Europe's power markets
Across Europe, power prices are behaving in ways that are leaving even seasoned market participants questioning what they’re seeing. From ne...