News on European electricity markets
Week 20/2025
(12/05/2025 –18/05/2025)
| NEWS |
May 13, 2025
Is the inertia of synchronous generators of thermal power plants necessary?/strong>
The transition to a 100% renewable electricity system also involves rethinking the technical foundations that have underpinned its stability for decades. One of these pillars is the system inertia, traditionally provided by synchronous generators. In a system dominated by renewable technologies, this inertia disappears, posing a challenge for maintaining grid stability. In this new context, technologies such as batteries with grid-forming inverters emerge as a solution to provide virtual inertia and reinforce the resilience of the electricity system.
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May 12, 2025
European electricity market prices rose in the second week of May, but registered negative values during the weekend
In the second week of May, prices in most major European electricity markets increased compared to the previous week, except in Spain and France. Over the weekend several markets registered negative hourly prices, with an all-time record in Spain, as well as the lowest prices since at least 2023 in other markets. In France and Belgium there were negative daily prices, with values not seen since 2020 in France. Portugal registered an all-time record for photovoltaic energy production, while France reached the highest wind energy production for a day in May in the last four years. Electricity demand, as well as gas and CO2 prices, rose and Brent futures registered the lowest value since February 2021
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April 9, 2025
Storage: the key to decarbonisation and energy independence
Energy storage is no longer a promise of the future but a strategic pillar of the present. The 2025 edition of Intersolar Europe has confirmed that batteries both in stand-alone and hybrid systems are positioned as the key structural element for integrating renewable energies, ensuring security of supply and accelerating energy independence.
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| SOCIAL MEDIA |
May 9, 2025
You can already request our monthly report of April 2025 on the evolution of prices in the European...
| WEBINARS |
- Evolution and prospects of European energy markets
- Importance of demand and secondary band forecasts
- Analysis of benefits according to the degree of battery use
- Financial optimisation of batteries
- Regulatory issues of storage: subsidies and capacity payments
- Javier Adiego Orera, CEO and co-founder of 7C Energy
- Oriol Saltó i Bauzà, Associate Partner at AleaGreen
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| WORKSHOPS |
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These are the latest workshops held:
- Short term forecasting for agents that operate in the spot and futures markets. Request recording >>
- Mid-term forecasting with the stochasticity distributions for agents operating in the spot and futures markets. Request recording >>
- Alea Energy DataBase (AleaApp) for the compilation, visualisation and analysis of data related to the energy markets. Request recording >>
| HYBRID SYSTEMS OF RENEWABLE ENERGY AND BATTERIES |
Consult service of studies, analysis and reports for hybrid systems >>
| MARKETS FORECASTING REPORTS |
At AleaSoft Energy Forecasting, long term forecasting reports are carried out for all European energy markets. In addition, new complementary services associated with these long term reports are offered.
Mid term European electricity markets prices forecasting reports are also available, which provide a vision of the prospects for the coming months and years, taking into account the most up to date scenarios for the evolution of the economy.
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| REPORTS FOR THE ENERGY SECTOR |
At AleaSoft Energy Forecasting, studies and reports on the European energy markets are carried out to satisfy the needs of the companies in the sector or other indirectly related companies. Some examples of these reports are:
- Long-term analysis of the electricity sector in the European markets
- Optimisation strategies for hybrid systems of renewable energy and energy storage
- Impact of the 7% tax on the market prices
- Financing and PPA
- Renewable energy auctions
- CO2 prices
- Analysis of the emission factor transferred to the market at the long term
- Price captured by photovoltaic, solar thermal, wind and hydroelectric energy
- Valuation of the wind and solar resource of a facility
- Influence of anticipated nuclear power plants shutdowns in the electricity sector
- International interconnections
- Analysis of price cannibalisation and hourly price profiles in the future
- Future of the green hydrogen in the energy sector
- Self-consumption
- Analysis of future scenarios in the sector and simulations
- Repercussions of the NECP in the electricity market
- Monographs on the main European electricity markets
- Cogeneration
- Biomass
- National, regional electricity consumption or client portfolio
- Generation optimisation
- Fuels: consumption, prices and futures
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| ALEA ENERGY DATABASE (ALEAAPP) |
At AleaSoft Energy Forecasting, the Alea Energy DataBase (AleaApp) was developed, an online platform which compiles the data from the energy markets and the macroeconomic data from the main European markets, helping and facilitating the digitalisation of the companies. In this tool it is possible to visualise and analyse the data through comparative graphs of variables, calculation of the moving average, changes in the temporality of the series, among others.
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| ENERGY MARKETS OBSERVATORIES |
The energy markets observatories are available on the AleaSoft Energy Forecasting website, which allow analysing the evolution of the main European electricity markets in recent weeks. This tool includes hourly, daily and weekly graphs in which the information is updated daily.