Fill Your Tank With
THE ROUTE TO NET ZERO
In focus
12 Biden reinvigorates US plans to combat climate change
Trading hydrogen
“ It ’ s going to be important for there to be a traded market so that we start to get proper price discovery to ultimately get the right investment decisions ”
Doug Wood , European Federation of Energy Traders ( Efet ), p . 16
In perspective
16 The hydrogen economy 20 Electrifying the Nordics 22 Ice-free Baltic boosts Russian coal 28 Spanish PPA growth may slow 32 Costly plans to boost EU power trade
Regulars
8 First word 10 Market talk 34 Last word
Tenders v PPAs in Spain
Green capacity auctions involve risks that wholesale prices will fall , but “ we hope that as long as the government sees that the market is sufficiently active [ in achieving the 2030 goals ] it will not have to intervene so much ”
Pablo Borondo , analyst at the consulting fi rm Aurora , p . 28
Montel Magazine 4 – 2020
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