Dear Madam or Sir,
Last week, as part of the “Fit for 55” climate package, the EU Parliament and the EU member states agreed to increase the share of renewable energies in the EU from 32% to 42.5% by 2030. The rate is currently around 22%.
In addition, partial targets were agreed for the building, transport and industry sectors in order to advance the integration of renewable energies here as well.
In addition, last week the European Commission outlined the plan to start the early auctioning of EU emission allowances as part of the REPowerEU initiative from July 2023. This so-called “frontloading” should offer 16.5 million more EUAs in the auctions this year.
Analysts had previously speculated that this process could start sooner and assumed a volume of 30-40 million additional EUAs for 2023.
The market took this reduction bullish and reacted visibly positively to it, with the December benchmark contract of the EUAs gaining 4.28% on a weekly closing basis and closing well above the EUR 90 mark again.
In the new trading week, prices could continue to be bullish, as only 7,227,000 EUAs are auctioned on three trading days due to Good Friday. In the next week, due to Easter Monday, a total of 9,433,500 EUAs will be auctioned at the Leipzig EEX on four trading days.
The new auction calendar with the new auction volumes should be published in the coming weeks.
| (Average Quotes Exchange / OTC) | ||||
| Instrument | 24/03/23 | 31/03/23 | Change | |
| EUA (Spot-Market) | 86.32 EUR | 90.48 EUR | +4.16 EUR | |
| EUA (December-2023-Future) | 87.65 EUR | 91.93 EUR | +4.28 EUR | |
| VER (Natural Carbon Offsets) | 3.04 USD | 3.39 USD | +0.35 USD | |
| VER (CORISA eligible Carbon Offsets) | 2.06 USD | 2.07 USD | +0.01 USD | |
| nEZ (German National Carbon Units) | 30.00 EUR | 30.00 EUR | +0.00 EUR | |
| ICE Brent Crude Oil (Benchmark Future) | 74.90 USD | 79.87 USD | +4.97 USD | |
| EURO (Currency, Forex) | 1.0735 USD | 1.0841 USD | +0.0106 USD |
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