Cross-border electricity price spreads are more than just trading signals. They play a crucial role in portfolio strategy in European power markets. As markets become more interconnected and renewable generation expands, regional price differences have become both more frequent and more complex.
Weather is among the most influential forces shaping European electricity markets. As...
Interconnectors are vital to Europe’s electricity network, enabling power to flow...
Use this article as a guide to manage risk in ancillary markets, with special attention...
This blog describes the most likely scenarios in which ancillary prices might diverge from wholesale signals, as well as when they might reconnect.
This blog explores why ancillary markets are structurally thinner than wholesale markets, indicators to suggest volatility and how this, in turn, can affect
This blog looks at how European harmonisation reforms are reshaping ancillary price formation and the best way to react to these changes.
This blog takes a look at how ancillary revenue stacking works in practice, where the key risks sit, and how optimisation frameworks must evolve as
This blog examines the mechanics behind reserve scarcity and explains why ancillary markets often act as leading indicators of grid stress.
This blog shares insights into how price discovery for ancillary services truly works across reserve markets in the UK, DACH, and the Nordics. It also
For reserve traders, battery portfolio managers, and market analysts, grasping why FCR prices fluctuate independently is crucial for predicting returns and
Denmark’s power prices do not move in isolation. Over the past year, shifts in flow-based market coupling, cross-border constraints and rising wind output
Battery energy storage systems (BESS) are becoming increasingly important in the German power market. A look at the ‘Marktstammdatenregister’ of the Federal
In intraday trading, playing the long game does not work as it does in other trading...
In energy trading, the price and the speed at which assets can be sold are critical...
In an environment where most variables, such as the amount of renewable energy...
Renewable energy relies on harnessing the power of the weather, which can result in...
Renewable energy is, by its nature, intermittent. It relies on the weather to generate...
In the power market, pricing is often open to extreme changes in pricing. When this...