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Energy: weather and geopolitics boost the rise in gas prices

Natural gas prices have returned to their November 2023 level. The war in Ukraine, the first cold spell and conditions not conducive to renewables explain this rise in prices.


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Journalist at the Planet pole

On Bernard Padoan

Published on 11/21/2024 at 4:15 p.m.
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AAfter months of (relative) stability in an average price range oscillating between 30 and 40 euros/MWh on the wholesale markets, natural gas has been experiencing a new surge in recent weeks.

At 48 euros/MWh, the Dutch TTF contract – the European benchmark listed in Rotterdam – had not been this expensive for exactly a year. Certainly, we are still very far from the peaks reached at the height of the energy crisis – more than 340 euros/MWh in August 2022. “We are not yet in a crisis situation, far from it”, tempers Maxime Sonkes, delegated administrator of the group purchasing platform Wikipower/Comparateur-Energie.be.



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