NEI Energy Markets Report (July 17th - 21st)

Here's a summary of what went on in the energy markets last week:

Electricity prices increased again last week due primarily to record hot temperatures (see pages 1 & 2). Gas prices at the Henry Hub rose $0.49 to $6.09/MMBtu despite record temperatures (see page 4).

Nuclear capacity availability was at 99 percent last week. Fermi 2 finished a maintenance outage and was the only plant offline during the week (see pages 2 & 3).

Crude oil prices were $75.21 / barrel (see page 5) and uranium prices rose to $47.25 / lb U3O8 (see page 7).

For the report click here (pdf). It is also located on NEI's Nuclear Statistics webpage.

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