EUA Carbon Price Today

The live EU ETS carbon allowance price - the cost of emitting a tonne of CO2 in Europe, and a direct input into power and industrial costs.

EUA · EU ETS ALLOWANCELIVE
84.78€/t▲ +0.43%
Price of one EU emission allowance. Change shown vs the previous quote.
updated 23:59 CET

The EUA - EU Allowance - is the traded unit of the EU Emissions Trading System, the world’s largest carbon market. One allowance covers one tonne of CO2, and every power station, factory and airline inside the scheme must hand back one allowance for each tonne it emits. The market price of that allowance, in euros per tonne, is the EUA carbon price.

Its supply shrinks by design - the cap falls each year - while demand swings with the economy and, above all, with power generation. When gas prices climb, utilities switch toward coal, which needs more allowances per unit of electricity, and the carbon price often rises in step with gas. Policy decisions, auction results and the Market Stability Reserve can move it sharply.

Rivex tracks the live EUA price with spot and forward-curve data, and uses it to compute the clean spark and clean dark spreads that decide which plants run.

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Frequently asked

What is the EUA carbon price?
An EUA (EU Allowance) is a permit to emit one tonne of CO2 under the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS). Power stations, factories and airlines must surrender one EUA for every tonne they emit, and those allowances trade on a market - the EUA price above, quoted in euros per tonne, is what it currently costs to emit.
What drives the EUA price?
Supply is set by policy: a cap that falls a little every year, tightened further by the Market Stability Reserve. Demand comes from industrial output and, crucially, from power generation - when gas is expensive relative to coal, utilities burn more coal, need more allowances, and the EUA price tends to rise with gas. Auctions, weather and macro sentiment all feed in.
How does carbon pricing affect energy prices?
The cost of EUAs is built into the marginal cost of fossil generation, so the carbon price is a direct input into European power prices and into the clean spark and clean dark spreads that decide whether gas or coal plants run. Rivex calculates those spreads for 14 countries.
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