Trading the gas–power interface: Where South-East Europe’s volatility is actually made
In South-East Europe, most of the meaningful volatility is not created in outright gas markets or in flat power positions. […]
In South-East Europe, most of the meaningful volatility is not created in outright gas markets or in flat power positions. […]
Industrial gas contracting in South-East Europe has entered a regime where electricity risk, not gas price risk, is the dominant cost
Gas-fired generation in South-East Europe no longer earns its keep by running often. It earns it by being there when nothing
In mature power systems, electricity prices tend to track gas costs with reasonable consistency. Gas may not always be marginal,
In South-East Europe, gas does not merely influence electricity prices through marginal cost. It multiplies volatility by interacting with structural congestion in
The same gas shock produces very different electricity outcomes depending on where it lands. In Central Europe, gas price movements
In South-East Europe, the most disruptive electricity price events are rarely explained by movements in the Dutch TTF benchmark alone.
Gas has become the most misunderstood variable in South-East Europe’s electricity markets. It no longer needs to dominate generation volumes,
Carbon convergence has become the most consequential timing risk in South-East European power trading. Direction is broadly agreed: carbon costs
South-East Europe’s power markets are increasingly characterised by a widening gap between where system value is created and where revenue is actually captured.
Flexibility assets in South-East Europe are no longer best understood as domestic arbitrage machines smoothing hourly price curves. They are
South-East Europe’s power markets are undergoing a quiet but decisive reordering in which congestion, rather than generation cost, increasingly determines