Mark Clare

Mark Clare
bring gas spiral
The only way we can get out of this spiral is to bring new gas to the UK.
action assuming deliver following further gas guarantees next price proper ready rises taken volatile wholesale winter
While there can be no guarantees in such a volatile wholesale market, we see no need for any further price rises this year, assuming the infrastructure is ready to deliver new gas next winter and that proper action is taken following the Commission's findings.
anybody changed forecast market prices quickly reality sort volatility
The reality was that the market changed very fast. We had to put our prices up very quickly and we hadn't forecast that sort of change. I don't think anybody forecast the sort of volatility we have now.
prices wholesale
With wholesale prices where they are, all suppliers are going to have to put prices up in 2006, and I think that is inevitable.