EUA prices did not fluctuate much in October. The main factors affecting the energy and EUA markets were gas-related strikes in Australia as well as a leak on a pipeline in Finland.
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This month EUA prices oscillated between €82.04 and €84.8, reaching their lowest point at €78.95. Last year, bans on Russian gas supply to Europe were introduced. As the Union had to get imports from elsewhere, it is now more affected by what is happening in the worldwide power sector. Several energy markets disruptions were bringing global commodities prices higher in the past few weeks. In turn, those were introducing upward forces to European carbon markets as well.
Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) facilities in Australia announced that they would go on a strike. This matters because they produce around 10% of global supply. Europe is currently a big buyer of Chevron’s LNG and is in direct competition with Asian actors for those resources. Chevron’s strikes decrease supply, which would in turn drive prices up.
An offshore gas pipeline in Finland was shut because of a detected leak. The facility is expected to stay off until April 2024. News that the leakage was a result of an act of sabotage brought more concerns to investors. The identify human activity suggest that other interventions are also possible. This could decrease supply even more. Therefore, it pushed the gas prices to increase further.
The current geopolitical conflict in Israel also adds to the upward move to energy prices. Israel has a lot of natural gas resources and is a supplier to the Eastern Mediterranean regions and Europe more broadly. After the attack began, Israel shut down a big offshore production platform. The country asked Chevron to stop the production in a field accounting for about 50% of the country’s gas, also being a big supply plant for Egypt and Jordan. To compensate for it, Israel will import from other countries, hence entering in competition with European demand as well. Hence, the reduced Israeli supply pushed up global (and especially European) gas prices.
However, other factors introduced downward dynamics for EUAs. They limited the higher energy prices’ effects described above. Demand for EUAs was generally low.
Industrial activity has been low in the recent past, as it has still not recovered after the shock introduced at the start of the Russia-Ukraine war. The decreased productivity requires the emission of less CO2. There is less of a need for carbon allowances, logically.
There has also been an increased use of low carbon intensive energy resources (solar, nuclear and hydrogen power), also limiting CO2 emissions. Uncertainties about the incoming winter also limited some investors from entering a big buying wave. They were waiting for more clarity on the weather conditions and the corresponding energy needs for the next months.
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