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With platforms like PICASSO now operational, cross-border balancing has dampened some of the sharpest edges that characterized earlier years. Imbalance value still exists, but capturing it that has become more competitive.
What’s missing in many trading setups is a forward-looking view on where imbalance prices are likely to settle, also as a directional proxy for intraday price dynamics.
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.
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.
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.
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.