Market coupling in South-Eastern Europe: Integration success story or structural half-measure?
Market coupling has been one of the most ambitious and consequential reforms in European electricity markets. By linking national day-ahead […]
Trading power, not megawatts: How market power is shifting to borders and flow rights in South-Eastern Europe
Electricity market power in South-Eastern Europe is no longer defined primarily by who owns generation assets. It is increasingly defined
Hydropower under climate stress: The quiet risk in South-Eastern Europe’s electricity security
Hydropower has long been the invisible stabiliser of South-Eastern Europe’s electricity systems. It rarely dominates political debate, yet it underpins
From baseload to optionality: The end of traditional dispatch in South-Eastern Europe
For decades, electricity systems in South-Eastern Europe were organised around the concept of baseload. Large lignite units, supplemented by hydropower
Cross-border capacity as price insurance: How congestion drives SEE electricity volatility
If South-Eastern Europe’s electricity market has a single structural feature that repeatedly converts manageable system stress into extreme price volatility,
The SEE flexibility gap: Why balancing, not capacity is the new system constraint
South-Eastern Europe’s electricity debate still carries a legacy obsession with capacity. How many megawatts a country “has” is treated as
South-East Europe power markets at the turn of 2025–2026: Trading liquidity, cross-border flows and price formation in a volatile winter
The final weeks of December 2025 and the opening month of January 2026 marked a clear inflection point for electricity trading across South-East Europe.
SEE’s oil pipeline landscape and its implications for regional markets, pricing trends and economic dynamics
Southeast Europe’s energy infrastructure is at an inflection point. As the geopolitical landscape shifts and global hydrocarbon markets adjust to
Strategic crossroads: Serbia’s power sector and the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism’s impact across the Western Balkans
As the European Union moves into the full enforcement phase of the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism in 2026, the policy
Cross-border electricity trade, carbon measurement, and energy transition investment interplay under the emerging CBAM regime
Serbia and the wider South-East Europe electricity system are at the intersection of accelerating regional electricity market integration and the
Europe sees mixed solar and wind energy trends in late January
In the fourth week of January, solar photovoltaic energy production rose in both the German and French markets compared to
Exporting volatility: How SEE power risk is absorbed by core EU markets
South-East Europe’s electricity markets do not exist in isolation. By 2025, they were tightly interwoven with Central and Western Europe