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What precisely electricity generators should publish as inside information under REMIT Regulation
Monday, 23 January 2012 06:25

What precisely should be published under new disclosure scheme for wholesale energy products?

ACER Agency in its Guidelines built its list consisting of three main items:
- any planned outage, limitation, expansion or dismantling of capacity of one generation unit that equals or exceeds 100 MW, including changes of such plans,
- any unplanned outage or failure of capacity that equals or exceeds 100 MW for one generation unit, consumption or transmission facility, including updates on such outages or failures,
- any other information that is likely to have a significant effect on the prices of one or more wholesale electricity product if made public;

the last one however is quite spacious.

But ERGEG’s catalogue released in December 2010 as regards electricity generators stipulated the positions for disclosure far more extensively and specifically.

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Beneficial holdings disclosure requirements for emissions agents under the California cap-and-trade
Tuesday, 17 January 2012 20:48

The process for registration of participants under the Californian scheme is currently underway and covered entities must register by January 31, 2012.

Emissions brokers should consider specific requirements applicable to them in that scheme.

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State aid rules regarding aid involved in optional transitional free allowances for the modernisation of electricity generation – unfeasible for beneficiaries?
Thursday, 05 January 2012 22:26

The important clarification regarding Article 10c of the Directive 2003/87/EC is that the market value of allowances allocated free of charge must not exceed the total costs for investments undertaken by the recipient of free allowances (at the level of company groups). If the total investment costs are lower than the market value of the allowances, the recipients of free allowances will be obliged to transfer the difference to a mechanism that will finance other investments eligible under the National Investment Plan.
The issue of State aid regime could be decisive for potential free allocations and consequently highly influential with respect to market price tendencies for emission allowances.

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How to publish inside information under REMIT Regulation
Wednesday, 11 January 2012 08:31

Is the publication on market participant’s own website the sufficient discharge of the disclosure obligation on wholesale energy market?

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CCS-ready installation concept pursuant to draft Commission Communication Guidelines on Certain State Aid Measures in the Context of the Greenhouse Gas Emission Allowance Trading Scheme Post 2012
Monday, 02 January 2012 06:26

 

Draft Commission Communication sets out, inter alia, the long-awaited particulars for the regulatory State aid scheme for the construction of CCS-ready installations, and significantly modifies the definition of the notion ‘CCS-ready’ itself. The said modifications may be assessed as the ‘qualitative easing’ of the regulatory burden – in the face of relatively slow deployment of the new technology.

 

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