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.
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Ancillary services markets explained: how price discovery really works
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
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Frequency response markets: why FCR prices move independently of wholesale power
For reserve traders, battery portfolio managers, and market analysts, grasping why FCR prices fluctuate independently is crucial for predicting returns and
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Denmark and its neighbours: Flows, spreads and the impact of flow-based coupling
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
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How battery storage expansion in Germany will affect power prices
Battery energy storage systems (BESS) are becoming increasingly important in the German power market. A look at the ‘Marktstammdatenregister’ of the Federal
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Liquidity and order books during volatile intraday conditions
In energy trading, the price and the speed at which assets can be sold are critical factors in a market participant's success and profit. This element
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Wind-driven intraday volatility: patterns, risks and opportunities
Renewable energy is, by its nature, intermittent. It relies on the weather to generate energy, and so it is at the mercy of natural elements. Wind energy is
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Intraday volatility in power markets explained: the renewable effect
In the power market, pricing is often open to extreme changes in pricing. When this occurs on the day of delivery, within a single day of trading, we call it
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Renewable forecast errors: the primary driver of intraday price swings
Renewable energy is in itself an intermittent source of power, and this unpredictability can have an effect on intraday price swings elsewhere in the market.