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Citadel, a leading global investment firm, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire 100% of Hamburg-based power trading firm FlexPower.
At 12:00 noon today, the German-Luxembourg bidding zone saw its first Day-Ahead auction based on 15-minute products for delivery on 1 October 2025. Instead of 24 hourly blocks, the new market standard in European power trading now consists of 96 quarter-hour intervals.
Battery energy storage systems are becoming a cornerstone of Germany’s energy transition. We explore the financial opportunities and risks in Germany’s wholesale and balancing markets.
Data centers account for around four percent of total electricity consumption in Europe and North America. As demand grows, the question of how flexibly they can use power is becoming increasingly urgent.
Electricity (cross-product) price volatility has historically been closely linked to overall price levels. This trend seems to have ended in 2024 in Germany, as low marginal cost renewables are pushing the overall wholesale price level down, while peakers such as gas and batteries need to finance their investments in relatively few but increasingly expensive production hours
FlexPower GmbH, PowerField Energy B.V., and Spectral have commenced trading operations for the co-located Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) and Photovoltaic (PV) plant in Wanneperveen.
This blog post is the third in a series of articles about hedging price volatility using standard shapes such as wind and PV, as well as more novel and somewhat non-standard ones, such as the FlexHL (Battery). While the first two articles were explainers for consumers, this one is for suppliers who are looking to sell their flexibility, i.e. BESS owners.
A Tale of Merchants, by Amani Joas
In this subsequent blog, we extend our discussion from part I and look at how to use Flex HL (battery) shapes to hedge against price volatility.
The FlexIndex measures on a daily basis the revenues that operators of flexible assets can achieve in Germany’s short-term spot market. The index is based on a reference battery with a storage capacity of one megawatt-hour and a power of one megawatt.
