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GB Capacity Market Pre-Qualification: Capacity Floods the T-4 Auction

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How will the Clean Power 2030 plan impact wholesale trading for GB BESS?

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Biased, contrarian, French – why its power curve bucks trend

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UK offshore windfarm

UK energy bills: explaining how expensive subsidies can help lower power prices

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Offshore wind storm

Can Europe’s offshore wind industry weather the storm?

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British renewables

Nuclear and renewables compete for Britain’s family silver

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How solar flipped the peak‑baseload spread

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Better together: Europe needs coordination to resolve power paradoxes

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Thinner slices: Europe shifts to 15-minute power trading

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Commercial curtailment: key catalyst for the energy transition

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Hungarian renewables

Hungary’s solar debate heats up: shield turned beast?

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French solar panels

Increasing French power exports reducing negative price hours

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Renewables and nuclear

Load vs logic: why nuclear and renewables are an imperfect match

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Austrian hydropower

Austria: bottleneck or catalyst for price convergence

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Finnish energy

Finland’s new normal: volatility rules a market in transition

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Nordics flags

Nordic energy markets: intraday and balancing shifts in 2025

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Norwegian hydropower plant

Hydro production in NO2 likely to reduce as dry conditions keep reservoir levels low

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Gb Zonal Pricing

UK zonal pricing decision: long live the reformed national market

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Power grid balancing tools

European heatwave placing power grids under strain

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Poland's power market

New Polish President, same old power sector problems?

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Renewables in summer

Swedish power markets: Midsummer and negative prices

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French renewables

The French green power paradox: circuit overload

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European nuclear roadmap

European nuclear: recalculating the route to net zero

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Finnish renewables

Balancing in transition: how Finland’s imbalance prices reflect nordic market reforms

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Belgian streetlights

Nuclear uncertainty: Can Belgium still shine bright?

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Norwegian hydroplant

Dry weather pushing Norway-South towards net-import situation

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Grid pylon

Blackout lessons: Stability challenges for modern grids

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Power plant

PPAs set a new course amid shifting regulatory winds

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A hydropower plant releases excess water and seagulls search for food in the flowing water, image from the Ljusne strömmar power plant in Söderhamn municipality, Gavleborg county Sweden.

New price formation mechanisms in Sweden: Insights from the first months of FBMC

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From crisis to reform: Italy's power market evolution (and what's next)

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Budapest, Hungary. German gas transporter ship waiting for upload.

Q1 2025 power market review Hungary versus Germany

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Energy trading in a blackout

The Iberian blackout: ambition vs inertia

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Speculative energy trader

Don’t blame the speculators: complexity behind Europe’s gas volatility

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Renewables in the Nordics

15 minute resolution in power markets: a success for Nordic balancing?

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Battery Energy Storage System

Negative price season is here, are batteries ready?

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Interconnectors

Love thy neighbour: European power interconnections

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Heathrow map

Final call at Heathrow: should energy security be a mainstream debate?

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Battery module and solar panels

Battery storage and its impact on German power prices: a game changer?

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European power price zones

The beauty of bigger power price zones

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Algorithmic energy trading

A new chapter for Nordic grid balancing

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Danish wind turbines

Danish imbalance prices: a more volatile future

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Populist rally

Populists taking aim at energy markets

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AI datacentres fuelling power demand

The AI revolution needs power. Can the UK keep up?

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Naval ships

Sabotage at sea, Europe’s energy under attack

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Market coupling

Why protectionist energy policies produce rotten tomatoes

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Offshore wind farm

Lessons from the recent GB market crunch

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German political leaders posters

Is Germany’s election make or break for green ambitions?

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Bullish Markets

Continuous trading takes the Iberian power market by the horns

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Irish building in a snowstorm

Ireland’s energy future: lessons from history, challenges ahead

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Gas plant and energy markets

Systems thinking: a personal perspective on energy markets

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Solar in the Netherlands

Birthday party paradoxes: an energy expert’s nightmare

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Hydrogen Plant

Avoiding the hydrogen hype trap: lessons from blockchain

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Nordic renewables

Balancing green markets: Denmark sets the standard in Europe

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Keir Starmer Election Victory

Do the UK’s ambitious zero-carbon power system plans add up?

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Spanish solar

Free power: Spain tops European league table

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Italian solar

Turning the TIDE: a new era for Italy’s short-term energy markets

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Tihange Nuclear Plant Belgium

Nuclear Power in Benelux, a tale of two worlds

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Austrian Hydro Plant

Austria’s energy mix: how renewables created an independent price area

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Nordic market coupling

An Assessment of Flow-Based Market Coupling in the Nordics

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White Windfarm

Finland: Europe’s most volatile short-term electricity market

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Solar panels

Increasing volatility & negative prices: the Swedish flexibility need

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French fuel mix: zero carbon and below zero prices

French fuel mix: zero carbon and below zero prices

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Operating wind farm

Energy market trends: the outlook for 2024

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Solar farm Germany

German solar investment: turning energy markets upside-down?

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Guarantees of Origin Producer

Guarantees of Origin: market trends 2024

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Hungarian Transmission Network

Hungarian imbalance: wrong incentives causing extreme prices

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Transmission Network Italy

PICASSO and its problems: Italian Imbalance Issues

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Interconnector pipes

Viking Interconnector: analysing power flows and profits

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Wind farm at dusk

Guarantees of Origin and the Energy Community: greening the Balkans

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Wind farm barren landscape

France: towards a volatile imbalance price

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Hydro plant

Guarantees of Origin: defining the price of net-zero

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Snow covered renewables

Guarantees of Origin: the green transition in real time?

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Renewables under the clouds

Guarantees of Origin: market trends for 2023

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