The Energy Flux interactive podcast returns tonight with special guest John Kemp, senior market analyst, commodities and energy at Thomson Reuters.

We will be discussing the ins-and-outs of the global energy crunch, the many factors keeping prices high in the UK and across Europe, and the outlook for wholesale and retail markets for 2022 and beyond.

John and I will be taking calls via the Callin app, so don’t miss this fantastic opportunity to glean valuable insights from a seasoned energy analyst with his finger on the pulse of the market.

Here’s a link to the show ‘room’ on Callin. You will need to download the Callin iOS app to follow the Energy Flux pod, listen live and call in. I’ll send out a link to the recording afterwards.

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In the meantime, if you’re in need of some energy-related audio right now, you can listen again to my monologue on how negative wind subsidies are doing their bit to alleviate the UK energy crisis. Click here for the full show (42 mins). Here are a few highlights:

• Wind farms paying £££ millions back to energy suppliers (1m 37s)

• Unhedged UK energy suppliers caught swimming naked (1m 11s)

• Energy poverty sweeps across the UK (1m 37s)

This episode was inspired by last week’s premium article about negative wind subsidies under the Contracts for Difference mechanism:

Energy Flux

Negative wind subsidies help cash-strapped UK energy suppliers

The UK government is facing a political crisis over soaring energy bills. The next increase in the retail price cap in April promises to be brutal: average household bills will rise by around 50% to £2,000 per year, and could hit £2,300 in October. Ministers are scrambling for ways to square the circle of alleviating suppliers’ ballooning wholesale costs without heaping too much pain on hard-up consumers. Is the answer to their problems blowing in the wind…

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17 days ago · 2 likes · Seb Kennedy

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