On Thursday 18 July, in its second quarterly review for 2024, the Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) noted price volatility and changes in supply on European gas markets during the first half of the year.
At the end of the first quarter, gas prices initially fell to levels not seen since the energy crisis but rose in the second quarter, due in particular to a tightening of the global market for liquefied natural gas (LNG) owing to “outages in LNG production facilities...