SUBSCRIBER NOTE: Platts to add Spanish PVB, Italian PSV gas assessments

London (Platts)--29Jun2018/552 am EDT/952 GMT Following industry consultation, S&P Global Platts has decided to expand the daily Spanish PVB and the Italian PSV gas price assessments from July 9, 2018.

Platts will add Month-ahead+1, Season-ahead and a Calendar year+1 contract to the current Spanish PVB assessments, which will 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 adding a Calendar year contract to the existing Italian PSV assessment, which will 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 primary assessments will be published in Eur/MWh with the following currency and unit conversions: pence/therm, $/MMBTu and Eur/Gj.

In addition, Platts will also publish corresponding spark spreads and clean spark spreads with 45% and 50% efficiency for the Spanish Month-ahead+1, and the Calendar year+1 contracts and the Italian Calendar year contract. Platts has decided not to proceed with publishing Spanish spark and clean spark spreads for the season-ahead assessment.

Platts continues to invite comments and queries to power@spglobal.com with copy to pricemethodology@spglobal.com