Interview of AEE with Antonio Delgado Rigal, PhD in Artificial Intelligence and CEO of AleaSoft Energy Forecasting
AleaSoft Energy Forecasting, April 28, 2022. Interview of AEE with Antonio Delgado Rigal, PhD in Artificial Intelligence, founder and CEO of AleaSoft Energy Forecasting. For more than 20 years, AleaSoft has offered hourly price forecasting for the electricity market, based on statistical models. What has the evolution of the tools used over these years been? […]
European electricity markets prices fell again thanks to wind energy
AleaSoft Energy Forecasting, April 25, 2022. In the third week of April, the wind energy production increased in most European markets, which, together with lower demand in several markets, favoured the decrease in electricity markets prices. During the weekend, negative prices were reached in Belgium and the Netherlands and in the Iberian market some hours […]
Calls for aids for energy storage
AleaSoft Energy Forecasting, April 22, 2022. The aids will be needed for the complete development of the energy storage necessary to achieve the energy transition objectives. This news summarises the calls for aids for storage, both open and future, within the framework of PERTE ERHA. For the development of energy storage projects, as for renewable […]
Which financing opportunities does energy storage have?
AleaSoft Energy Forecasting, April 19, 2022. A stable regulation is necessary for the development of energy storage technologies that are going to be key and essential for the energy transition towards 100% renewable electricity generation. Members of MITECO will analyse the financing opportunities for these facilities in the next webinar organised by AleaSoft Energy Forecasting. […]
Photovoltaic energy broke records and together with wind energy lowered European electricity markets prices
AleaSoft Energy Forecasting, April 11, 2022. In the first week of April, the photovoltaic energy broke records in the Spanish, French and Italian markets. This technology and the wind energy contributed to lower the prices of most European electricity markets. Negative values or the lowest in recent months were registered in several of them. Gas […]
The first quarter of the year registered the highest prices in history in the European energy markets
AleaSoft Energy Forecasting, April 4, 2022. During the first quarter of 2022, European energy markets were influenced by the effects of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Record gas prices were registered that caused hourly, daily, monthly and quarterly historical maximums in several electricity markets. Brent futures registered the highest prices since July 2008 and CO2 […]
With the limitation of gas prices, the Iberian electricity market will have two reference prices: the usual marginalist price and the adjusted peninsular price
AleaSoft Energy Forecasting, April 1, 2022. Just after RDL 6/2022 was published to prolong and modify the measures aimed at lowering energy prices, the governments of Spain and Portugal sent a proposal to modify the wholesale electricity market to Brussels. The most important thing about this proposal is that it maintains an unchanged marginalist price […]
Why is the Iberian Peninsula an energy island?
AleaSoft Energy Forecasting, March 29, 2022. Spain, and the Iberian Peninsula by extension, can be considered an energy island. The capacity to import and export electricity with both France and Morocco represents a very small fraction of the demand and of the generation capacity. This article analyses all data on the interconnections of the Iberian […]
European electricity markets prices fell at the beginning of the spring
AleaSoft Energy Forecasting, March 28, 2022. European electricity markets prices fell in the first week of spring, and negative values were registered in the Belgian market, although most exceeded €215/MWh of weekly average. The drop in gas prices and electricity demand, as well as higher solar energy production, favoured the behaviour of the electricity markets. […]
The lack of projects with PPA brings merchant projects into focus of financing
AleaSoft Energy Forecasting, March 25, 2022. Out of the projects under the reasonable profitability regime of RD 413/2014, there are already very few that need financing. The extreme price volatility in the electricity markets today resulted in few PPA contracts being closed. Faced with this situation of little availability of renewable energy projects to finance, […]
European electricity markets prices moved away from the highs after the drop in gas prices
AleaSoft Energy Forecasting, March 21, 2022. In the third week of March, gas prices fell, dragging European electricity markets prices, which moved away from the highs registered in the second week of the month. Even so, the weekly average exceeded €200/MWh in most markets. During the weekend, when the demand is lower, negative prices were […]
Interview of Acermetal with Antonio Delgado Rigal, PhD in Artificial Intelligence and CEO of Aleasoft Energy Forecasting
AleaSoft Energy Forecasting, March 15, 2022. Interview by Cristina Oliva Collar from Acermetal with Antonio Delgado Rigal, PhD in Artificial Intelligence, founder and CEO of AleaSoft Energy Forecasting. The electro‑intensive industry is experiencing an unprecedented “industrial emergency” situation. The steel industry, in particular, was forced to stop production in certain cases… What measures should be […]