Aggreko: World Cup confirms the power of rental

Aggreko continues to impress as a company on the up: its rising share price over the last five years bears testament to the success of the organization. As power demand increases across the world, often in geographically remote locations, concerns over security supply issues remain, and rental power companies look set to stay successful. <BR />

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Belgium: national energy regulator may be given additional authority in order to protect consumers

The Belgian minister of energy has tried to give the Commission de Regulation de l'Electricite et du Gaz the authority to influence price. Suppliers would have to submit an application to change tariffs, which the regulator would either approve or refuse. Yet with comparable levels of GDP and energy tariffs to its European neighbors does Belgium's energy market really need such radical measures?

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Belpex: one small leap for European wholesale market development

Europe's largest power exporter, France, has agreed to wholesale power market coupling with its lowland neighbors, Belgium and the Netherlands. Multinational day-ahead trading is scheduled to commence at Belpex later in November. While this represents a forward step towards a single European energy market, it alone will not redress underlying market inefficiencies.

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BP: topping the major league

Last week's Q2 results statements cast a positive light on BP. Out of the four oil majors that released figures (TotalFinaElf publishes interim results in September), only BP's were in line with analysts' expectations. Strong management was a key factor, underlined by BP's invitation to CEO Lord Browne to extend his tenure.

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Buyingpower: can it push into Europe fast enough?

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CCS: technology's prospects boosted by Dutch government

The Dutch government has granted Shell and a consortium led by GDF-Suez E30m to develop proposed carbon capture and storage schemes that are expected to capture a combined two million tones of CO2 over the next 10 years. While one of the schemes will use depleted gas fields, the pioneering use of depleted coal mines in the other may encourage further investment in the technology in future.

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Centrica: another tentative foray into Europe

Centrica has not built up a Europe-wide energy supply business with the same enthusiasm as some of its rivals, but its purchase of Oxxio is a small step in this direction. However, it appears to be an exploratory step, and large-scale future growth outside the UK is by no means inevitable.

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CO2 emissions: Germany implements reductions

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Commercial fuel retail: fuel cards lead the way in Europe

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Conventional thermal power will continue to dominate the supply mix in the Netherlands

Datamonitor has released its latest forecast of power supply and demand to 2030 in the Netherlands. The forecasts include a breakdown of annual power supply into different generation types, and provide demand sensitivities.

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