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“THE CASE FOR GAS POST COP21: Natural gas is the ‚low hanging fruit‘ for material and immediate reduction of greenhouse gases“, in September 2016

The article, which received wide attention and distribution, including the posting on various websites, is a further refined and elaborated version of the previous article published for the Euroforum Newsletter in August 2016. Read more

Wolfgang explains in more detail that, absent grid parity of renewables, an “affordable subsidy constraint” exists which is reflected in the individual pledges of the countries being party to the COP21 treaty. He backs this up by reference to respective analysis of the IEA in its WEO 2015. He demonstrates that immediate and material effects for the carbon budget can be achieved by expanding the role of gas in the fuel mix. Furthermore, he points out the – frequently forgotten – positive effect of natural gas on clean air, not only in the power generation space, but also in the heat and transport sectors. Last but not least he proposes ‘gas advocacy reloaded’, namely to claim more assertively the rightful place for natural gas in the fuel mix.
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“Erdgas – eine ‘low hanging fruit’ für die zeitnahe Reduzierung der Treibhausgase” in August 2016

As a contribution to the Euroforum Newsletter published along the ‘22nd Euroforum Jahrestagung “Erdgas 2016’, Wolfgang discusses the implications of COP21 Read more , namely what he qualifies as the “affordable subsidy constraint” for countries absent grid parity of renewables. He demonstrates that immediate and material effects for the carbon budget can be achieved by expanding the role of gas in the fuel mix.

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“Ölpreisverfall – Auswirkungen auf die Gaspreise und Relevanz für den Energiemix ” in July 2015

As a contribution to the Euroforum Newsletter published along the 19th Handelsblatt Jahrestagung – Energiewirtschaft Österreich 2015‘ in Vienna, on 12 November 2015, Wolfgang discusses the various ‘cycles’ that have been seen around price revisions in the context of oil and gas price decoupling. Read more

Whilst first, because of the enormous cash drain, importers were accepting temporary base price reductions, almost all long-term contracts now contained “structural solutions”, namely indexation to hub pricing. Whilst in theory, producers could now dispose of their volumes themselves, this offered a new business model for midstreamers as service providers to dispose of bulk volumes in the traded markets against a service fee.
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