Tag Archives: volatility
ACER flags structural weaknesses in southeastern Europe’s power market after 2024 price spike
A summer 2024 surge in electricity prices across southeastern Europe exposed weaknesses in regional grid flexibility and cross-border trading capacity, prompting regulators to seek new safeguards.…
Serbia’s power market shifts into a volatility-and-carbon era as SEEPEX adopts negative prices
Serbia’s SEEPEX introduced negative electricity prices from 5 May 2026, a structural change that exposes oversupply and renewable intermittency in real time. The move arrives as…
Renewables-driven swings push Southeast Europe into a new electricity volatility regime
During CW21, Southeast Europe’s power prices shifted away from conventional fuel economics toward renewable intermittency, cross-border balancing and transmission constraints. The week-to-week reversal—followed by renewed price…
Solar-driven oversupply and grid bottlenecks push Southeast Europe into a new volatility regime
Southeast Europe’s electricity markets are shifting from a renewables-growth story to a flexibility-and-volatility challenge, as solar expansion brings midday oversupply, negative prices and higher balancing swings.…
Can SEE build a regional balancing market before renewable volatility accelerates?
South-East Europe’s renewable build-out is expanding faster than the region’s balancing architecture, raising the risk of recurring congestion, curtailment and higher imbalance costs. Storage and hydropower…
TurkStream flows weaken in April as Strait of Hormuz disruptions lift European gas prices
Russian pipeline gas deliveries to Europe via TurkStream fell in April, with average daily volumes dropping year-on-year and more than 25% versus March. The decline reflects…
Week 18 SEE power markets: demand softens, renewables swing pricing and deepen intraday volatility
Southeast Europe’s Week 18 data showed weaker demand and a renewable rebound that eased some headline prices, but also widened market fragmentation and drove deeper intraday…
Montenegro’s industrial prices cool to near-stability, easing cost-push inflation risk
Industrial producer prices in Montenegro rose just 0.3% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2026, with import-related industrial prices up 0.2%, pointing to an end of…
April trading highlights structurally volatile power market signals across SEE
Electricity.Trade intraday curves show extreme swings between midday and evening hours in April, including negative pricing during solar peaks in Hungary. Across the region, limited storage…
How Greece’s gas-and-solar mix is turning South-East Europe into a volatility-driven market
Greece is increasingly setting the tone for power prices in southern South-East Europe as LNG-linked gas plants set the marginal price while fast-growing solar pushes midday…