What are grid connection queues, and why are they delaying the energy transition?
A grid connection queue is the list of projects waiting for permission to plug into the network, and the date it gives each one decides when it can start
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How to read a power forward curve and what it signals about future prices
A power forward curve reflects the market's present expectations of supply, demand and fuel costs for future delivery, plus the risk premium
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What are small modular reactors? A beginner’s guide to SMRs
A small modular reactor is a nuclear plant built in a factory and assembled on site, rather than constructed piece by piece as a one-off project. The idea
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What are capacity markets? How countries pay to keep the lights on
A capacity market pays power stations, batteries and consumers for being available, not for the energy they actually produce. Countries run them because
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What are negative power prices? Why they happen and who benefits
Negative power prices happen when there is more electricity on the grid than people need, so producers end up paying buyers to take it, and this guide
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Reading LNG cargo pricing against pipeline gas benchmarks like TTF and NBP
LNG cargoes delivered into Europe are commonly priced against the TTF or NBP gas hubs, so knowing how these benchmarks relate to each other helps buyers and
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What open, high, low and close tell you about spot power price data
Open, high, low and close figures sum up a full day of spot power prices in just four numbers, and this article explains what each one tells you and how to
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What is the merit order, and how are power prices set?
Almost every power price movement comes back to the same mechanism: the merit order, the ranking that decides which plant runs and which one sets the price
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What are day-ahead, intraday and balancing markets? A simple guide to power trading
Europe's electricity system runs on three connected markets, day-ahead, intraday and balancing, that let traders and grid operators keep supply and