Year in review 2023: Flowbased CORE Individual Validations

Another year is over. So, it is time for a year in review series! First up: Individual Validations in CORE
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Flowbased: update 2 about the the Nordic Flowbased parallel run results

The Nordic Flowbased go-live has unfortunately been postponed. However the parallel run is still going strong, so time for an updated look on the results!
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DA market: the benefits of the Day-Ahead market design for NL

Recently some people criticized the DA market design as being a bad business case. But is that really true? A short discovery tour
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Flowbased: One year of CORE: A look at the price convergence since go live

In honour of one year anniversary of CORE go live: A look at how price convergence held up during the worst energy crisis in Europe in a long time
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Aten: pausing a wind park for bird migrations, a worlds first in the Netherlands

Last saturday night a world first was executed in the dutch offshore world parks: pausing the turbines for large bird migration swarms. A couple of quick images on it.
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Day Ahead Market adventures: capacity restrictions and huge negative prices for business day 2023-04-19

Large capacity restrictions and prices dropping to 200 EUR/MWh below zero, what happened on trading day 2023-04-18 for business day 2023-04-19? Time for some explanations in this writeup!
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Flowbased: an update about the the Nordic Flowbased parallel run results

The Nordic Flowbased external parallel run is still going strong and its two months since my first look so time for an update!
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Flowbased: a quick look at first results of the Nordic Flowbased parallel run

For some time now the external parallel run for the implementation of the FlowBased capacity calculation methodology in the Nordics is live. Time to look at the first results!
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Aten: Market Cap Reached Incident Baltics 2022

Recently the baltics reached the current price cap in DA market of 4 thousand euros per MWh. Can we see indications why? And what is this price cap?
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Aten: negative prices and wind curtailment

A quick look at one of the consequences of high negative prices on the dutch Day Ahead electricity market: shutting down of wind units
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