Natural gas prices in Europe certainly have spiked this winter. Putin appears to have cooled them a bit yesterday with a promise of more exports to Europe.
To figure out a price comparison between the U.K. and North America I looked at the futures market. In U.K. the price is in pence per therm. A therm is 100000 BTU’s. The price today is 250 pence per therm or $3.27 USD. The Henry hub price is $5.52 per million btu’s. So you have to times the U.K. price by 10, so $32.70 in the U.K!!! Roughly 6 times what it is in North America. I thought according to Chuck2 the U.K. was producing all this renewable wind and solar energy? Europe is in the same situation with energy costs through the roof! Asian countries outbidding Europe for LNG. Not much LNG exports from Canada, government incompetence in getting projects approved. Environmentalists standing in the way.
To figure out a price comparison between the U.K. and North America I looked at the futures market. In U.K. the price is in pence per therm. A therm is 100000 BTU’s. The price today is 250 pence per therm or $3.27 USD. The Henry hub price is $5.52 per million btu’s. So you have to times the U.K. price by 10, so $32.70 in the U.K!!! Roughly 6 times what it is in North America. I thought according to Chuck2 the U.K. was producing all this renewable wind and solar energy? Europe is in the same situation with energy costs through the roof! Asian countries outbidding Europe for LNG. Not much LNG exports from Canada, government incompetence in getting projects approved. Environmentalists standing in the way.
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