Vice-president of Mitsui (Japanese iron, steel or machinery trading company) said for local press that disability of European politics to reach some agreement regarding EU carbon allowances market could lead to further fall of CO2 credit prices. /Dec12 future CO2 contract decreased to its record low of 6.2
EUR after European Commision postponed a voting about CO2 permits again last week. This slump is behind electricity prices fall during last 2-3 weeks. CEZ profitability decrease with lower electricity prices, nevetheless just to some extent as brown coal power plants profitability rose with low CO2 price. /
The renewable-energy fee paid by Czech households will rise next year by 39%. CEZ and (
13,85 EUR, -0,82%) are reducing the amount they charge for the non-regulated
part of the electricity bill – baseload electricity price, but the regulated part will cause rates to rise by 4.8% for CEZ customers that use electricity for lighting
and heating. Customers that do not use it for heating will pay 2-3% more next year. Please note, that CEZ‘s profitability heavily depends on baseload electricity price which has fallen to 46 EUR/MWh from 50
EUR MWh during last (
90,95 USD, 0,33%).