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The Single Day-Ahead Coupling (SDAC) optimizes cross-border electricity trading by matching supply and demand across different countries for power delivery the following day. It’s a highly complex and time-constrained system, which can sometimes lead to vulnerabilities.

Cross-market optimization delivers the strongest business case for battery energy storage systems (BESS) trading. To explain why, we break down the trading landscape across ancillary services, spot markets, and the balancing market.

For independent power producers (IPPs) and energy offtakers alike, TaaS helps unlock value in volatile short-term power markets. However, not all TaaS solutions are created in the same way.

Explore the meteorology of solar radiation and its role in solar power forecasting – how energy from the Sun reaches the Earth, impacts solar panels, and is predicted using advanced weather models. Insights that keep our trading mindset grounded in atmospheric science.

AI is indispensable for predicting the production – and prices – of intermittent renewables like solar and wind. Discover how we build and deliver accurate AI solar power forecasts and explore future developments.

The prosumption forecast – specifically tailored to commercial assets – is live in the Netherlands and built to scale across Europe. Initial results show balancing cost savings of up to 20%.

Whilst the peak of the energy crisis is behind us (for now), 2024 was anything but ordinary. We reflect on the year’s most widely debated and consequential short-term power market moments and prepare for what’s ahead in 2025.

Starting January 1st, 2025, Italy’s regulatory authority will roll out a major dispatching and balancing reform: TIDE. A key change is the shift to 15-minute imbalance prices.

Belgium will join the European cross-border balancing platform PICASSO. This step aligns Belgium with the EU’s broader efforts to harmonize balancing markets, enhancing the coordination of aFRR activations across borders.