About this episode

The episode discusses the impact of recent geopolitical events on European power trading and market strategies with expert Xavier Veillard.

Today, we return to the European energy markets, in particular, power. How has European power demand fared since COVID and Russia's invasion of Ukraine? What has that done to power markets themselves and the energy mix? Just as European power demand was starting to pick back up, has Israel and the US's attack on Iran upended it? And what has all this volatility meant for power traders and European energy traders more broadly? Our guest is Xavier Veillard, Partner at McKinsey & Company and global lead for power trading, to unpack how market volatility is reshaping power trading strategies and the skills traders now require.

People in this episode

Host: Paul Chapman

Guest: Xavier Veillard

Topics covered

• European energy markets
• power trading
• market volatility
• energy demand
• trading strategies

Keywords

• power trading
• European energy markets
• market volatility
• energy demand
• trading strategies
• COVID
• Ukraine
• Iran

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: McKinsey & Company

Places: Europe, Israel, US, Iran

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