Did coal just rescue the UK gas market?
Report summary
Table of contents
- Flexible gas supply responds
- After a long absence, coal plays a key supporting role
- But coal capacity in the UK remains under threat
- UK gas production decline increases the reliance on flexible gas supply
- A Rough deal for storage
- How likely is a repeat event for the UK gas market?
- The UK must act now to improve resilience for the future
Tables and charts
This report includes 4 images and tables including:
- Gas supply to UK (25 Feb-5 Mar)
- Flexible gas supply vs NBP day-ahead
- UK LNG storage inventory vs capacity (winter 2017/18)
- UK power generation - hourly 19/02/2018-05/03/2018 (interactive chart)
What's included
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