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SIDC extends the market coupling principle, enabling traders to adjust positions continuously up to one hour before delivery. In its first five years, it facilitated more than 242 million transactions, with trade volumes in 2025 roughly double those of 2022.
Solar growth, evolving market rules, and accelerated automation are reshaping trading conditions at a pace the industry hasn’t seen before. We break down the key developments into three interconnected areas: the power grid, energy markets, and trading technologies.
More European TSOs are preparing to implement MARI, the European platform for exchanging mFRR. We explore the contrasting approaches in Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands, and what the Baltic experience reveals about shallow market dynamics.
The SDE++ has been highly effective in driving the Netherlands’ renewable energy buildout. However, it also created structural inefficiencies. What can power market participants do to protect their returns?
As of the 1st of October, European day-ahead power markets will transition from hourly to 15-minute market time units (MTUs). How does this impact bidding logic? Will a sawtooth pattern emerge?
When hundreds of short-term power traders pursue the same profitable strategy, that strategy eventually stops paying off. Yet market impact – the collective influence of trading decisions on market outcomes – remains a blind spot for many participants.
As volatility persists and imbalance price spreads widen, three market shifts are reshaping power forecasting requirements: traded volumes moving to intraday, increasing tail risk from rare weather events, and bias from poor data quality.
We sat down with Luuk to discuss the energy transition and its challenges, the role of AI and batteries, and where Dexter is headed following the Series C funding round.
The round was led by Alantra’s energy transition fund, Klima, joined by Mirova and with continued support from existing investors, including ETF Partners, Newion, and PDENH.