SUBSCRIBER NOTE: Platts proposes adding Spanish PVB and Italian PSV gas assessments

S&P Global Platts is seeking feedback on a proposal to expand the daily Spanish PVB and the Italian PSV gas price assessments from July 2, 2018.

Platts is proposing to add Month-ahead+1, Season-ahead and Calendar year+1 contracts to the current Spanish PVB assessments, which would be published on European Power Alert page 0823, on Natural Gas Alert pages 0056, in Platts Market Data category EG and in European Gas Daily.

Platts is also proposing to add a Calendar year contract to the existing Italian PSV assessment, which would be published on European Power Alert page 0822, on Natural Gas Alert page 0850, in Platts Market Data category EG and in European Gas Daily.

The initial assessments would be published in Eur/MWh with the following currency and unit conversions: pence/therm, $/MMBTu and Eur/Gj.

In addition, Platts is proposing to also publish corresponding spark spreads and clean spark spreads with 45% and 50% efficiency for the Spanish Month-ahead+1, Season-ahead and the Calendar year+1 contracts and the Italian Calendar year contract.

Platts invites comments and queries to power@spglobal.com with copy to pricemethodology@spglobal.com by May 25, 2018.

For written comments, please provide a clear indication if comments are not intended for publication by Platts for public viewing. Platts will consider all comments received and will make available comments not marked as confidential upon request.