Energy trade

Energy trade

Research, market data and analysis for energy trade.

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Dated brent

Energy; Energy trade

Brent cargoes are known as dated brent cargoes once they acquire a specific set of loading dates, usually at a point about two weeks from loading. Before this point, brent cargoes are typically ...

Availability factor

Energy; Energy trade

In a nuclear power plant, the disposable energy which could have been generated during a period, expressed as a percentage of the energy which could have been produced by a continuous power rate ...

Average cost pricing

Energy; Energy trade

A pricing mechanism based on dividing the total cost of providing electricity incurred in a period by the number MWh (wholesale) and kWh (retail) sold in the same period.

Combined heat and power plant

Energy; Energy trade

Power plant, usually embedded, which produces both electric and thermal energy in the form of steam. See cogeneration.

Backwardation

Energy; Energy trade

A market where the price for nearby delivery is higher than for further forward months. The opposite of backwardation is contango.

Kyoto Protocol

Energy; Energy trade

A treaty of 163 countries, created in 1997. It requires 35 industrialised countries to reduce emissions of six greenhouse gases by at least 5% overall from 1990 levels by 2008-2012. Kyoto entered ...