SEE

Gas in SEE 2025–2026: Security, price, infrastructure and the battle for industrial survival Read More »

Gas in SEE 2025–2026: Security, price, infrastructure and the battle for industrial survival

Natural gas has become one of the decisive strategic determinants of Southeast Europe’s economic, industrial and geopolitical identity. Where electricity is increasingly shaped by transition policy and structural market design, natural gas remains a more immediate, volatile and existential variable. It defines heating resilience, shapes industrial production costs, underpins power generation in several markets, influences […]

SEE’s electricity reality 2025–2026: Caveats, structural risks and the future of industrial competitiveness Read More »

SEE’s electricity reality 2025–2026: Caveats, structural risks and the future of industrial competitiveness

Electricity pricing in Southeast Europe has never been a simple technical matter, but in 2025 and 2026 it becomes something much larger: a decisive determinant of whether the region industrialises successfully, remains marginal, or falls into a cycle where manufacturing retreats, competitiveness erodes, and opportunity dissipates. Beneath every national electricity tariff table lies a deeper

The price of power: Why Southeast Europe’s industrial future is being decided on the electricity market in 2025–2026 Read More »

The price of power: Why Southeast Europe’s industrial future is being decided on the electricity market in 2025–2026

Electricity is no longer just a utility input for Southeast Europe’s industry; it has become the decisive competitive variable that shapes margins, investment decisions, regional positioning, and the ability of companies to survive in an increasingly demanding European economic ecosystem. As the region enters 2025, industrial electricity pricing in Southeast Europe sits at the intersection

Beyond barrels: How infrastructure, refining power and geopolitics decide oil reality in South-East Europe Read More »

Beyond barrels: How infrastructure, refining power and geopolitics decide oil reality in South-East Europe

Oil in South-East Europe is not simply about consumption, demand curves, or refinery margins. It is about who controls access points, who commands refining capability, who manages pipelines and terminals, and who operates under which geopolitical influence. Unlike electricity, which is tied to internal generation and balancing, and unlike gas, which is dominated by dependency

Who actually shapes liquidity, cross-border flows and price discovery in SEE’s gas markets Read More »

Who actually shapes liquidity, cross-border flows and price discovery in SEE’s gas markets

Gas in South-East Europe is not just a commodity. It is infrastructure, geopolitics, finance, and strategic vulnerability wrapped together. Unlike electricity, which is inherently domestic to its grids even when cross-border trade is high, gas is structurally external in SEE. These markets depend on who can bring molecules into the region, who controls the pipelines,

Who actually shapes liquidity, cross-border flows, and price discovery in SEE’s power markets Read More »

Who actually shapes liquidity, cross-border flows, and price discovery in SEE’s power markets

The question of who truly controls electricity in South-East Europe is not really about megawatts alone. It is about who controls movement, who controls visibility, who absorbs risk and who can turn fragmented national markets into a single tradable system. When you step back and examine Albania, North Macedonia and Montenegro together with Croatia, Bosnia

Who really controls power trading in the Western Balkans Read More »

Who really controls power trading in the Western Balkans

Power trading in the Western Balkans has never simply been about electricity. It is about geography, interconnection politics, hydrology, capital, algorithmic capability and the ability to manage risk across multiple fragmented but interdependent markets. Albania, North Macedonia and Montenegro sit at the centre of this landscape, not as large demand centres but as strategically positioned

Renewables and storage in SEE: Between ambition, reality and the question of who truly joins Europe’s green energy future Read More »

Renewables and storage in SEE: Between ambition, reality and the question of who truly joins Europe’s green energy future

Europe has already crossed a strategic threshold. Renewables are no longer an experimental transition concept; they are the backbone of its emerging power system. Wind, solar and hydropower are structurally rewriting electricity economics. Storage is shifting from a niche support function into an essential strategic pillar. Flexibility has become capital. Stability now depends not on

When renewables arrive faster than the system: Why SEE’s power future depends on balancing and open borders Read More »

When renewables arrive faster than the system: Why SEE’s power future depends on balancing and open borders

South-East Europe is accelerating into a renewable future, but the systems meant to stabilise, balance and move that electricity across borders are not keeping pace. The result is a region that risks turning opportunity into instability, unless balancing capacity strengthens and cross-border congestion finally yields to openness and trust. South-East Europe’s electricity story is increasingly

SEE’s power trap: Why a region rich in energy still lives with unstable prices Read More »

SEE’s power trap: Why a region rich in energy still lives with unstable prices

South-East Europe remains a strange contradiction in Europe’s energy map. This is a region that has hydropower heritage, available renewable potential, strong interconnection corridors on paper, and strategic positioning between EU and non-EU systems. Yet it continues to live with some of the most volatile, politically sensitive and economically disruptive electricity pricing realities on the

Scroll to Top