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On January 1st, 2026, Switzerland moved from dual to single imbalance pricing. For short-term traders, imbalance price forecasting in Switzerland now has a direct P&L impact. The signal is cleaner and the reward structure is more transparent.
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.
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.
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.