Portfolio strategies for trading cross-border electricity price spreads
Cross-border electricity price spreads are more than just trading signals. They play a crucial role in portfolio strategy in European power markets. As
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Weather, renewables and cross-border electricity flows
Weather is among the most influential forces shaping European electricity markets. As renewable generation, especially wind and solar, has increased, weather
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Interconnector outages and their impact on regional electricity prices
Interconnectors are vital to Europe’s electricity network, enabling power to flow between regions and helping align prices across markets. When these links
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Risk management in ancillary markets: tail risk, liquidity and regime shifts
Use this article as a guide to manage risk in ancillary markets, with special attention paid to volatility regimes and structural shifts.
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Ancillary vs wholesale markets: understanding decoupling and convergence
This blog describes the most likely scenarios in which ancillary prices might diverge from wholesale signals, as well as when they might reconnect.
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Liquidity and competition in ancillary markets: why small volume changes move prices sharply
This blog explores why ancillary markets are structurally thinner than wholesale markets, indicators to suggest volatility and how this, in turn, can affect
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Ancillary market reform and harmonisation: what it means for price discovery
This blog looks at how European harmonisation reforms are reshaping ancillary price formation and the best way to react to these changes.
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Revenue stacking in ancillary markets: balancing capacity, activation and wholesale exposure
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
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Reserve scarcity and price spikes: when ancillary markets become the real stress signal
This blog examines the mechanics behind reserve scarcity and explains why ancillary markets often act as leading indicators of grid stress.