The gas system is slightly undersupplied at 4mcm short.

This is as flows from yesterday slide, according to npower’s daily market report.

Total flows from St Fergus have reduced amid outage.

Temperatures are close to seasonal normal levels again.

Peak power margin is “very healthy” above 13GW, said Alex Guiot from the Optimisation Desk.

Wind generation is at around 1.5GW and is expected to ramp up to 5GW.

The French interconnector is importing at half capacity whilst the Dutch one is close to capacity.

On the oil side, refined products rather than crude are threatening price recovery, Mr Guiot added.