In this month’s issue, Olga Gorstenko discusses the energy industry’s agreement to disagree about policy directions in regard to the type of generation resources to dominate stack additions. Her editorial addresses a surge in North American renewable energy generation and a “resurrection” of natural gas and oil. Gillian Dunks also discusses how oil price assessments […]
Central Appalachia (CAPP) was once the heart of coal mining in the United States. At its peak, the area was the dominant source of coal in the United States, producing 294 million tonnes of coal per year (Downstream Strategies). But in recent years, coal production from Central Appalachian mines has fallen drastically from 291 million […]
It has been only two years since we rolled out ZE DataWatch, our online data news publication. With an objective to cover all news related to data in energy and commodities markets, we have witnessed quite interesting twists over these two years. The most noticeable and continued development is an increase in the number of […]
Imagine you’re a trader working on a number of different analyses of the energy market every day. Part of your analyses involves the creation of forward curves, before pushing them onto a database and using them in a downstream system. A lot of the job involves copying and pasting content from one spreadsheet to another – […]
Electricity generation in sub-Saharan Africa is for the most part acutely unreliable. Despite being endowed with fossil and renewable energy resources vast enough to cover all of its energy needs, the rate of electrification is lower than in any other region in the world. Having visited a few countries in eastern and southern Africa myself, […]
Editor’s Letter: I’m not sure if Barack Obama’s June 25 presidential climate change speech could beat anything else this month in its prominence and tentative consequences for the energy, commodity and financial markets. For the most part, it did not surprise many. Mr. Obama went full speed ahead in his fight against carbon polluters. InDepth: […]
Financial markets went into a tizzy over Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s statement at the rate-setting panel press conference on June 19, 2013, “If the incoming data support the view that the economy is able to sustain a reasonable cruising speed, we will ease the pressure on the accelerator by gradually reducing the pace of […]
South East Asian electricity market designs and their development are not identical, and a one size fits all approach is not applicable due to a difference in social, cultural, economic and political variables. In the October Issue ICE clears its first LNG swap and Platts launches LNG data page Weather Underground’s customers can become a […]
DataWatch is celebrating its first anniversary with the launch of its own website, www.datawatch.zema.global. We are looking back and reminiscing about the markets and changes in data sources and data reports. Emerging markets, European financial turmoil and the growing importance of natural gas and crude oil have remained the primary focus throughout the year. In the September […]
ZE DataWatch is a monthly online publication that keeps you ahead of the curve with news and information about data and data management and how they affect your business. In the July Issue EEX spins off into a separate natural gas market, European Gas Exchange LME considers an acquisition offer from HKEX Canada and Colombia […]