SEE

Cross-border interconnections in South-East Europe were built to improve security of supply, smooth local imbalances, and enable regional trade. For years, they largely fulfilled that role. Flows were slow, predictable, and stabilising. Imports covered outages. Exports absorbed surplus. Price differentials narrowed gradually. That function has changed. In today’s SEE power system, interconnectors no longer primarily […]

Baseload in South-East Europe did not disappear suddenly. It has been eroding quietly, unevenly, and often invisibly, masked by legacy assumptions about system stability. For years, coal and large hydro units continued to anchor prices, absorb volatility, and provide inertia even as renewable capacity expanded. That buffering role is now breaking down, and its loss

The South-East Europe (SEE) electricity market has evolved from a loosely connected collection of national grids into a highly interdependent, volatility-driven system. Once considered a stable region with predictable energy flows and price patterns, SEE is now experiencing the growing pains of renewable energy integration, baseload erosion, and cross-border spillover effects. This transformation is not just

The energy landscape in South-East Europe is undergoing an irreversible transformation. As the region moves towards a decarbonised, solar and wind-dominated grid, industrial buyers are faced with a set of risks and opportunities unlike any they have encountered before. Power procurement has become a strategic discipline, requiring companies to rethink their approach not just to cost

As volatility becomes structural across South-East Europe, a quiet but decisive shift is taking place in how power contracts are designed. The era of simple, energy-only PPAs is giving way to a more complex contractual landscape in which reliability itself is being priced. Firmed PPAs sit at the centre of this shift. They do not promise

In volatile power systems, traders learn quickly what works and what does not. Strategies that look elegant on paper but fail under stress are abandoned. What remains are approaches that survive extreme conditions — tight systems, forecast errors, congestion, and sudden price spikes. Across South-East Europe, power desks have converged on a simple conclusion: flexibility outperforms

For most industrial electricity buyers in South-East Europe, “hedging” still means one thing: fixing the price. This definition made sense in systems where price volatility was driven primarily by fuel costs, outages, or macro shocks, and where hourly price spreads were narrow. In such systems, locking in a forward price neutralised most meaningful risk. That

For most industrial CFOs in South-East Europe, electricity procurement has historically sat just outside the core financial narrative. Power was an operating input, negotiated by procurement teams, reviewed annually, and managed within tolerable variance bands. Sustainability added a new dimension, but it did not fundamentally alter the financial treatment of electricity. That separation no longer

For most industrial electricity buyers in South-East Europe, price risk is still intuitively understood as a single number. When discussions turn to power procurement, the focus remains anchored on the average megawatt-hour price secured over a year. This mindset is increasingly disconnected from how power markets actually function. In solar-heavy systems, the dominant risk is

When industrial power purchase agreements are discussed in South-East Europe, the conversation almost always starts with sustainability. Emissions reduction, green certificates, alignment with EU policy, and reputational benefits dominate both internal presentations and external communication. In many cases, these objectives are genuinely achieved. The electricity delivered under PPAs is renewable, traceable, and compliant with decarbonisation