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EnergyAce is a proud patron of the Wigan Youth Zone.

The Wigan Youth Zone which opened in 2013 continues to do great work for the young people of Wigan, even during these trying times. Their most recent impact document shows the most significant outcomes for young people from their time at the Wigan Youth Zone since its opening day right up until the last 3 months of lockdown where it has had to adjust to meet the restrictions put in place.

In their latest message the Youth Zone said “It gives me great pleasure in sharing our most recent impact document, which captures the significant outcomes for young people as a result of their engagement with Wigan Youth Zone from day one of our opening right through to the past three months of lockdown. I hope you will find it as impressive as we do.”

Significant Outcomes:

• 24,767 individual members making 545,442 visits.
• 74.5% of members identified a reduction in isolation.
• 82% of members have more friends.
• 86.5% of members feel more self-confident.
• 75% of members consider themselves to be healthier.
• 80% of members feel happier about their lives.
• There has been an increase from 60% to 72.5% of members doing exercise 2 or more days a week.
• 60% of members work harder at school.
• 81% of members said staff and volunteers encouraged them to prepare for the future.

The Wigan Youth Zone opened its “Virtual Youth Zone” within 72 hours of the coronavirus lockdown being announced, to provide open access for members and their families 7 days a week. The results can be seen in the image below.

The Wigan Youth Zone is now working hard to get the Youth Zone back open for face to face delivery for those that need it the most. “The team have been working very hard behind the scenes to make sure that we are able to open for face to face delivery with our members that need our support the most as soon as we are able to. From today we will be recommencing our Outreach provision by deploying our youth workers to the areas of most need and, all being well and subject to government guidance, we will be opening our doors for limited face to face delivery at the Youth Zone from Monday 13^th July.”

Please click here to read the full Wigan Youth Zone impact report to see the impact of the great work that they do.
Please also visit https://www.wiganyouthzone.org/ to see how you can be involved.

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A soft demand/supply complex drove short-term contract prices downwards towards the back end of last week. This move was a consequence of increasing levels of wind generation, higher temperatures, higher solar generation levels and lower national demand forecasts as the country headed into a bank holiday weekend. Early signs this morning are that some price correction is taking place.

Temperatures are expected to cool somewhat and with Russian gas flows into Western Europe dropping by over 15% over the course of the weekend, some upward impetus has bolstered short term pricing.

A strengthening wider commodity mix added some bullish sentiment to prices further along the curve. Indeed, the Brent Crude Oil price is one such benchmark that has held onto previous gains. The demand picture for Oil continues to improve as global lockdown gradually eases, boosting forecasted demand levels for the commodity.

This, coupled with suggestions that OPEC+ and the US are continuing to restrict production levels effectively has improved the price outlook even further. EUA Carbon also held comfortably above the 21 Euros/tonne level, responding to gradually increasing European energy demand. Naturally, headlines remain focused on Dominic Cummings’ movements and his much debated breach of lockdown rules.

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Price increases on the near curve were contained somewhat, as reports of milder weather and a healthy LNG outlook for the remainder of this month continued to suppress price movements for short term contracts. Norwegian flows into the UK remained low as the week closed, with a number of scheduled maintenance procedures going ahead on key North Sea infrastructure.

The renewables mix also remained strong on Friday and throughout the course of the weekend, with levels of solar and wind generation making up a significant portion of the National Grid’s stack.

Further along the curve, bullish sentiment took hold courtesy of a strong commodity mix. Indeed, strong gains in Brent Crude Oil fueled these increases, with Brent rising by over 7% following the release of the IEA’s forecast for global stocks, detailing a reduction of 5.5m barrels/day for the second half of this calendar year.

Pound Sterling weakened throughout Friday and over the course of the weekend.

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Demand levels heading into the bank holiday weekend sat much lower than seasonal norms largely due to warmer weather, reducing heating demand. In addition, the bright conditions boost solar generation but this additional supply was offset by low wind generation.

The wider commodity mix have witnessed steady gains in recent weeks as countries eased business and social lockdowns and fuel demand has picked up modestly. Indeed, renewed optimism going into the weekend provided support for Carbon prices, which in turn added some pressure to UK Energy prices. However, Oil prices have slipped more than 1% this morning as the demand glut persists and economic fears continue as a result of the pandemic, cancelling out any support from supply cuts of the world’s largest producers.

The Pound looks on track to remain subdued over the coming weeks as the UK starts it’s long road to recovery in comparison to some other nations, with PM Boris Johnson’s announcement on Sunday that it would be in August that the majority of the economy would be open again.

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Some early morning bullishness was seen during Friday’s session as the expectation of a rise in exports from the UK to Belgium forced day-ahead and month-ahead contracts upwards.

Furthermore, an expectant fall in daily LNG send out into the UK’s gas system also had a bullish impact. Throughout the course of the day bearish sentiment began to take hold, instigate a correction of some of the upside risk seen earlier on. Stronger levels of wind generation, warmer temperatures, a weakening Carbon price and a short upcoming week, all playing their part.

Forthcoming upside risk could be derived from any scheduled Norwegian pipeline maintenance during May and any alleviating of the considerable impact that economic lockdown across Europe is having on industrial energy demand.

Despite a strong end to April, analysts are forecasting a bearish month for Pound Sterling. Weakness in global stock and index markets are continuing to have an impact on the Pound’s direction, a result of the considerable reliance that the UK economy has on its banking sector. Furthermore, some strengthening trends in the US Dollar and the Euro are also playing their part.

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Over the past month, the wonderful Wigan Youth Zone (WYZ) team have established a completely new platform to engage young people who need their support now more than ever. They’ve been overwhelmed at how well their ‘Virtual Youth Zone’ has been adopted by the young people and the feedback they have received from young people, parents and the wider community has been exceptional. These times are difficult for young people with reported increases in abuse and diminished mental health; Wigan Youth Zone is committed to doing as much as we can at this critical time.

It is with this context, that I am pleased to share with you the headlines from a very eventful and successful month as well as providing an overview of support that would be welcomed during these times if you have the capacity.
Young People

Within 72 hours of the lockdown being announced, WYZ creative and talented team launched their ‘Virtual Youth Zone’ to provide open-access and universal content for all young people and their families to engage with. Operational seven days a week, young people can engage with pre-recorded and live activities which cover a variety of programmatic zones such as cooking, music, dance, fitness, quizzes, Lego sessions, games and issues-based work. As you will see from the WYZ impact report (click here attached) the engagement has been significant.

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This week’s market reports show us how a mixture of varied movements was seen across UK gas and electricity price curves in last Thursday’s session, ahead of the long Easter weekend. Strong pipeline flows from Norway and via LNG injection into the system ensured that the system was slightly oversupplied from open to market close. Additionally, the short-term LNG outlook remains positive, with 10 LNG vessels scheduled to arrive in the UK before the end of April.

UK and European weather forecasts remained consistent with previous predictions, showing warmer weekend climes over the Easter period and cooler forecasts heading further into the week, furthering the bearish pressures on gas near-curve market caused by slowing industrial energy demand.

Ahead of the much-heralded OPEC meeting over the Easter weekend, commodity markets held their breath to see how any proposed output cuts would affect Brent Crude Oil prices. Consequently, gas and electricity price movements further along the curve remained somewhat muted.

The anticipated agreement on production cuts was agreed, however a sharp rise in Brent Crude was not forthcoming as the record supply cut was not ample in easing concerns regarding the market’s persistent oversupply and the bearish impacts of COVID-19’s continuing spread.

With the lockdown period for the UK expected to be extended after other European countries announced an extension, it is unknown how long the situation with COVID-19 will last.

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This week’s market report shows near curve prices came under bearish pressure from an oversupplied system on Friday, as the UK’s gas supplies recovered considerably following the previous day’s temporary pipeline flow restriction from Norway.

There have been higher temperatures over the weekend which have so far spread over into this week, helping to keep demand forecasts in check, with suggestions of stronger wind forecasts also helping to alleviate some pressure on gas-fired generation in making up the national grid’s stack.

Low market liquidity continued to impact on electricity markets, with muted trading activity ensuring wider bid/offer spreads and limited availability of longer-term contract prices in particular.

Further along the curve, prices were lifted somewhat in line with some considerable increases seen in the Brent Crude Oil price on Friday. The price has risen considerably since it was near an 18 year low at 23.36$/bl last week. Investors appeared to remain optimistic that a unified production cut plan could be put in place between Saudi Arabia, Russia and the US, lifting the commodity price back above the 30$/bl mark. EUA Carbon prices, will edging down on Friday, traded above the 18$/bl level.

As we almost come to an end of the UK’s lockdown period, there is still uncertainty as to whether or not restrictions will be lifted yet.

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This week we can see the impact of how stricter lock down measures are meaning that demand levels continue to fall as companies are now operating from home or have ceased trading until further notice, leaving offices and factories shut.

This morning’s session has seen the UK Gas system open largely oversupplied again, as the UK could look to offload surplus supply into mainland Europe. This would add further weight to prices. A Qatari LNG tanker is expected at South Hook terminal this morning and a further import of Yamal LNG volume is expect into Dragon terminal tomorrow.

Brent Crude Oil is currently trading near 18 year low as the US, the world’s biggest oil consumer, surpassed China with the most confirmed cases of coronavirus. Prices are now so low that many producers can no longer pump crude at a profit, resulting in the shutdown of fields, while storage is also rapidly filling due to the steep contango which is also expected to curb output.

The British Pound has improved against the Euro and most the world’s largest currencies over the course of the past 24 hours but has since fallen against the U.S. Dollar amidst ongoing volatility due to the coronavirus economic crisis.

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