Month: July 2018

Dear Sir or Madam,

Scientists from the World Weather Attribution network have analyzed data from several European countries since the beginning of the previous century, including the three warmest consecutive days of each year. In the process, they have come to the conclusion that climate change has doubled the chance of heat waves currently prevailing in much of Europe. The global trend towards extreme weather events continues to increase. In the opinion of the scientists a rapid exit from fossil energy production is indispensable.

The German Federal Government is currently examining whether it should limit the currently unrestricted priority of renewable energies over fossil energy generation in grid feed-in. This should reduce the cost of maintaining grid stability. In the past year, these amounted to more than one billion euros, as electricity with a negative electricity price had to be sold to neighboring countries. Grid expansion is lagging significantly behind the production of renewable energies, as the major power lines to the south will be completed in a few years’ time.

On Tuesday of last trading week, the price of European CO2 emission rights marked a new seven-year high at € 17.59 per tonne. In the following days, prices fell again slightly and closed with a small plus compared to the previous week.

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According to the Federal Association of the Energy Industry (BDEW), a total of 118 billion kilowatt hours were generated by renewable energies in Germany in the first half of 2018. The share of the total German electricity production was 36%, whereby for the first time more green electricity than coal flow was produced. Compared with the previous year, renewable energies saw another increase of 10%.

Last Wednesday, interest in the auction of 4,593,500 EUA British EUA on the London ICE was so low that the auction was unsuccessful. Also, the EU auction last Friday could not enjoy a high demand, but was successfully carried out at a price of 15.80 euros; Twenty-one bidders were pleased with the bid.

Despite the weakening auction demand in the past week, the EUA could continue to gain compared to the previous week and closed on Friday just above the mark of 16 euros.

This week again auctions with a total volume of 21,504,000 EUA will be carried out at the Leipzig EEX. In addition, 3.547 million EUA from Polish contingent are to be found on Wednesday, as well as 4.36 million pieces for Germany customers on Friday.

The new week starts on the secondary market with a significant gain of more than one percent on this Monday morning.

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A breakup of the grand coalition in Germany seems to have been averted, not least because the SPD, in view of bad poll numbers, also has no interest in new elections and has grudgingly accepted the asylum compromise.

An unstable Germany in a weakened Europe would probably be in the interest of Donald Trump, who has expressed the view that the European Union was merely founded to weaken the US economically.

The German benchmark index DAX has taken note of the agreement in Berlin sympathetically and gained more than 200 points in the past week and also the euro shows itself against the US dollar again slightly in the plus.

Despite weaker oil prices, prices for European CO2 emission allowances rose sharply by just under 5% in the previous trading week, but this is also explained by the increased energy consumption caused by the continual high temperatures in Europe.

This week, 12,639,000 new EU certificates and 4,360,000 EUAs from German contingents will be auctioned at the Leipzig EEX on Friday. On Wednesday, 4,593,500 UK EEA will be auctioned on the London ICE, bringing the total to 21,592,500 new allowances this week.

In August, the summer break is again with a halved auction volume, and this is known to all market participants scarcity is already priced in the current prices.

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the relationship between the two German sister parties CDU and CSU is more than tense and it is currently extremely unclear how it will continue in the future. After lengthy meetings in Munich and Berlin, the current Federal Interior Minister has thrown his resignation from the post of Federal Minister and the CSU leadership in the balance, this decision, however, postponed again. What may seem like a victory for the Chancellor is, in fact, a defeat for the ruling coalition, and its position is as high as it has ever been in its 13-year chancellorship.

Rarely does the economy, including the Bavarian economy, position itself behind the position of Angela Merkel, as continuity and cohesion in Europe is an important basis for economic success. Whatever the coming days bring, a stormy autumn on the political level seems to be guaranteed.

In the past week, EU member states have come to a compromise with the EU Parliament on renewable energy and energy efficiency in climate protection. The recast of the Energy Efficiency Directive sets an energy saving target of at least 32.5 per cent by 2030, which is significantly higher than the 27 per cent proposed so far. Among other things, the share of renewable energies in the transport sector is set to increase to 14 percent by 2030, and thus be doubled.

Four variants of biomass or renewable electricity may be used: biofuels from crops such as corn or oilseed rape, biofuels from waste and residues such as straw or edible oils, electricity from renewable energies and synthetic fuels from renewable energy. The share of conventional biofuels from arable crops in total energy consumption in the transport sector should remain at a maximum of 7 percent, as in the past. Member States may now also be allowed to impose less than seven percent of the share of conventional biofuels without compensating elsewhere. The German government wants to count the proportion of conventional biofuels only up to a maximum share of 5.3 percent.

Last week, European CO2 emission allowances ranged from € 14.75 to € 15.38 and ended the first half of 2018 just below the € 15 mark last Friday. Market participants are likely to pay close attention to auction demand and energy market prices this week, but also have an eye on political developments in Germany.

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