As more batteries enter the Finnish market, where will the value come from? That was one of the key questions explored at Finnish Energy Deep Dives on 10 June. 🔋 Priyanka Shinde examined how growing battery penetration is increasing competition in ancillary service markets, putting downward pressure on prices and changing the economics of storage. ⚡ Building on that, Konstantin Pelz showed how battery revenues are increasingly shifting from ancillary services towards wholesale market arbitrage, intraday trading and balancing energy markets as the market matures. 🤖 Ljubov Cherney explored how AI is changing the way analysts work with energy market data. 📰 And Snjolfur Richard Sverrisson and Elias Huuhtanen shared a newsroom perspective on the issues likely to shape Finland's energy sector in the years ahead. A big thank you to everyone who joined us in Helsinki. Next stop: Montel Energy Deep Dives – Nordic in Oslo on 19 August. 👉 Register here: eu1.hubs.ly/H0w6LxB0

Are Nordic battery markets entering a new phase of maturity? At Montel Energy Deep Dives Finland on 10 June, Konstantin Pelz explored how revenue opportunities for battery storage are evolving as more capacity enters the market. One of the themes emerging from the analysis is that battery operators can no longer rely on a single revenue stream. As competition increases and markets develop, successful trading strategies will increasingly depend on combining opportunities across multiple markets. For investors and asset owners, this raises important questions: ⚡ How sustainable are current battery business cases? ⚡ Which markets will drive future revenues? ⚡ How will growing battery deployment reshape value creation across the Nordic power system? As the battery market scales, understanding these shifts will become increasingly important for anyone involved in storage development, trading or investment. 🎥 Watch Konstantin's insights from Montel Energy Deep Dives Finland: video.montel.energy/secret/1…

🇫🇮 Yesterday, we welcomed energy professionals from across the Nordic region to Helsinki for Finnish Energy Day 2026. The discussions throughout the day highlighted how rapidly Europe's energy landscape is evolving and the challenges market participants must navigate in the years ahead. Topics covered included: ⚡ Session 1 – Market outlook: Navigating uncertainty in 2026 🔒 Session 2 – Security of supply: Risks, resilience and reality 🔋 Session 3 – Market flexibility: From need to opportunity 📈 Session 4 – Power trading: New structures, new risks A huge thank you to our speakers, partners, sponsors and delegates for contributing to a day filled with valuable insights, discussions and networking opportunities. 📸 Take a look at some of the highlights from the event. Next stop: 🇳🇴 Nordic Energy Day in Oslo on 20 August. Interested in joining us? Register: eu1.hubs.ly/H0w5VXY0

What happens to global gas markets when LNG flows through the Strait of Hormuz are disrupted? That was one of the key topics explored by Sindre Knutsson, Partner at Rystad Energy, during his session at Finnish Energy Day yesterday: Middle East conflict and impact on global gas & LNG markets. Some of the points he highlighted: ⚡ Qatar's ability to ramp up LNG exports will be critical if the current disruption eases. ⚡ The Strait of Hormuz plays a vital role in global LNG supply, with disruptions creating a tighter global market balance. ⚡ Asian markets are feeling the impact directly through physical LNG volumes, while Europe is affected through its significant exposure to the global spot LNG market. ⚡ With low gas storage levels and reduced reliance on Russian gas, Europe faces increasing competition for LNG cargoes ahead of winter. ⚡ Backwardation in the TTF curve and stronger arbitrage opportunities into Asian markets could make attracting LNG cargoes more challenging for Europe. As geopolitical events continue to shape energy markets, understanding global LNG flows has never been more important. 🎥 Watch Sindre's insights from Finnish Energy Day: video.montel.energy/secret/1…

Is Finland prepared to secure power supply in a volatile energy system? That question was at the heart of today’s discussion at Finnish Energy Day during the panel Is Finland prepared? Securing power supply in a volatile system? Asta Sihvonen-Punkka, CEO of Fingrid Oyj, shared her views on the evolving needs of the Finnish power system and the limitations of relying solely on market-based solutions. Some of her key points: ⚡ Greater flexibility is needed to balance a changing energy mix. ⚡ Current market mechanisms are not delivering enough long-term flexibility at the required pace. ⚡ Cost-efficient, targeted measures may be necessary to support weather-independent capacity and maintain security of supply. As the energy transition accelerates, building a reliable and resilient power system will remain a critical priority. 🎥 Watch Asta’s insights from the panel and find the link to the full presentation: video.montel.energy/secret/1…

🇫🇮 Finnish Energy Day 2026 is underway! We're delighted to welcome energy professionals from across Finland and Europe for a day of market insights, industry discussion and networking in Helsinki. 🎥 We're live streaming Session 2: Security of supply – Risks, resilience and reality for free: 🔹 Energy security in a new world order Henning Gloystein, Managing Director, Energy, Industry & Resources, Eurasia Group 🔹 Panel: Is Finland prepared? Securing power supply in a volatile system • Mika Nykänen, State Secretary, Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment of Finland • Asta Sihvonen-Punkka, CEO, Fingrid Oyj • Henning Gloystein, @EurasiaGroup • Jaakko Jääskeläinen, Director of Market Intelligence, Fortum As Europe navigates geopolitical uncertainty, changing demand patterns and the accelerating energy transition, security of supply remains one of the most important topics facing market participants today. 👉 Register for the live stream: eu1.hubs.ly/H0vNX1J0

What happens when you build the world's tallest wind turbine? In Schipkau, Brandenburg, Gicon is currently constructing what is set to become the world's tallest wind turbine, reaching 365 metres high and standing just 3 metres shorter than Berlin's TV Tower. Beyond the engineering achievement, it raises an important market question: How much value does additional height create? Using our upcoming valuation platform, Montel Value, we analysed the same turbine at different hub heights while keeping the location and turbine specifications constant. 📈 Annual production • 100m: 5,774 MWh/a (1,519 full-load hours) • 200m: 11,506 MWh/a (3,028 full-load hours) • 300m: 14,847 MWh/a (3,907 full-load hours) 💰 Annual cash flow • 100m: €0.45m • 200m: €0.94m • 300m: €1.25m ⚡ Capture rate • 100m: 81.15% • 200m: 85.75% • 300m: 88.24% • German fleet average: 84.53% At 300m, the modelled turbine delivers almost double the production of a conventional German wind turbine, demonstrating the value of accessing stronger and more consistent wind resources. This is exactly the type of analysis Montel Value is designed to support, helping market participants better understand the value of renewable assets under different scenarios. 🚀 Montel Value is coming soon.

⚡ How do you map Europe's thermal generation landscape? At Montel, we've built a Power Plant Database covering more than 500 GW of operational thermal capacity across 40 countries and regions. 🌍 The database provides plant-level and unit-level information on capacity, technology and efficiency, helping us understand the assets that underpin Europe's power markets. 📊 And it goes beyond today's operational fleet, covering units under construction, modernised assets and retired plants to provide a richer view of how Europe's generation landscape is evolving. 🏗️ It's one of the datasets that powers our market analysis and helps us make sense of an increasingly complex energy system. ⚙️ 👉 Learn more: eu1.hubs.ly/H0w2gSn0

Battery revenues are becoming harder to predict. Grid constraints, curtailment, connection limitations and increasing competition between assets are changing how and where value is captured across European power markets. But what does the data actually show? Join Benjamin Wrigley and Sebastian Ligewie on 16 June for a free webinar where we'll analyse how grid constraints impact battery revenues using Montel's own price projections and battery storage analytics tools. We'll explore: 🔋 How grid constraints influence battery revenues across short-term markets 📊 Why optimisation outcomes differ between small and large-scale BESS assets ⚡ How balancing market dynamics affect revenue capture 📈 How to test revenue assumptions using real market data 🛠️ How FlexInsight helps quantify the impact of different charging and discharging constraints This practical, data-led session is designed for traders, analysts, portfolio managers, asset owners and storage specialists looking to better understand battery value in increasingly constrained power systems. 📅 16 June 2026 ⏰ 14:00 CET Register now and secure your place: eu1.hubs.ly/H0v_hlW0

MARI went from –340€/MWh to 0€/MWh in 48 hours. Capricious? No. Just misunderstood. 🇫🇷⚡ Back from two webinars on MARI with fresh eyes and fresh data. Here is what the market whispered me over the last few days. 📉 Submitted volumes are following the sun. After the 29th and 30th, ~200MW of proposed down-regulation volumes simply vanished in the evening. Solar gone, volumes gone. The correlation is striking. And that's why marginal price is so low. 💰 Price arbitrage or just smart economics? Requested volumes never exceeded submitted volumes. Interesting. The marginal price of French submitted bids hit 340€/MWh down. A MARI equivalent of elastic demand exists. In our case, capped at -340€/MWh. Beyond that, it is simply too expensive to activate more. RTE stopped there. 📅 Now the clearing prices. The weekend of 5th–7th June told a fascinating story. - Saturday 6th: clearing prices more extreme than Friday 5th. - Sunday 7th: highest clearing prices of the period… with many quarters at 0€/MWh. Wait. From -340€/MWh to 0€/MWh in 2 days? Look closer. Activated volumes were lower than requested on the 5th. On the 7th, many quarters showed zero activation at all. Another RTE reporting issue? No. France had export capacity to Spain, Belgium and Germany. France activated MARI across the border. But is it really that simple? On the 5th, France had ~2GW of export capacity to Spain. Spain had abundant mFRR volumes available close to 0€/MWh. So why activate expensive local mFRR? Because of one small detail: the 150MW per border limitation. France saturated that capacity toward Spain, then activated the rest locally, at prices ranging from -168 to -340€/MWh. That is why the clearing price swings so wildly on the 5th. Apply the same logic on the 7th with two borders open. France could cover almost 100% of its submitted bids outside its own perimeter. Hence: 0€/MWh activation on many quarters. The market cleared abroad. From –340€/MWh to 0€/MWh in two days. Not chaos. Just 150MW and two open borders. 🗓️ Mark your calendar: June 16th. The 150 MW per border limit is being lifted. From that date, if France can export freely to Spain, the extreme down-regulation prices disappear, floored at 0€/MWh. And we are still waiting for specific mFRR volumes to migrate toward standard mFRR on MARI. That is the next chapter to mitigate clearing price. 👀💰 Now you know. What MARI gave, MARI will take away. 👍 ^CB

Energy security is no longer just a policy discussion. It's a business challenge. From geopolitical tensions and shifting trade relationships to rising electricity demand and infrastructure constraints, the decisions made today will shape Europe's energy markets for years to come. 🇫🇮 Join us live from Finnish Energy Day 2026 for a free streamed presentation: 🎙️ Energy security in a new world order Henning Gloystein Managing Director, Energy, Industry & Resources, Eurasia Group Henning will explore the geopolitical forces reshaping energy markets, the risks facing Europe, and what businesses should be watching as they plan for the years ahead. If energy security, market resilience and Europe's competitive position are important to your work, this is a session you won't want to miss. 📅 11 June 2026 ⏰ 11:30–11:45 EEST 📺 Free live stream 🔗 Register here 👉 : eu1.hubs.ly/H0vNX1J0 

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After more than 15 years of relatively flat electricity consumption, are the Nordics entering a new era of demand growth? That was one of the key questions explored by Christian Sjødin at Energy Deep Dives Sweden last Wednesday during his session, The demand question: what will drive future electricity demand? Some of his key takeaways: ⚡ New electricity demand is expected to emerge over the next 5–10 years. ⚡ Hydrogen projects are still moving forward, although many are being delayed or scaled down compared to earlier expectations. ⚡ Data centres remain one of the biggest demand growth stories in the Nordic market. ⚡ Questions remain around where this new demand will be located and what challenges it could create for the power system. Understanding how, where and when demand grows will be critical for market participants, grid operators and policymakers planning for the next phase of the energy transition. 🎥 Watch Christian's key insights from the session: video.montel.energy/secret/1…

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🚗 Why do electricity prices differ between regions? Think about rush hour traffic. At 5pm in central Stockholm, the roads are packed as people head home. The routes out of the city become congested because too many cars are trying to use the same roads at the same time. The power system works in a similar way. When large amounts of electricity need to move from one area to another, transmission lines can reach their limits. When that happens, congestion occurs and prices can diverge between different bidding zones. But what about later in the evening? By 9pm, most people are already home. The roads are quieter and traffic flows freely. The same applies to transmission lines. When demand for transfers falls, the lines are less likely to hit their limits, congestion eases, and prices can move closer together. In this video, Priyanka Shinde explains congestion in power markets using a simple everyday example from the streets of Stockholm. 🎥 Watch the video below and let us know: what's the best everyday example you've used to explain energy markets?

🇫🇮 Is Finland prepared for the next phase of the energy transition? As electricity demand grows, flexibility becomes more important, and geopolitical uncertainty continues to shape energy markets, securing reliable power supply is becoming an increasingly complex challenge. At Finnish Energy Day 2026, this expert panel will explore what it takes to maintain security of supply in a rapidly evolving energy system. Joining the discussion: 🔹 Mika Nykänen, State Secretary, Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment of Finland 🔹 Asta Sihvonen-Punkka, CEO, @fingrid_oyj 🔹 Henning Gloystein, Managing Director, Energy, Industry & Resources, @EurasiaGroup 🔹 Jaakko Jääskeläinen, Director of Market Intelligence, Fortum Moderated by Snjolfur Richard Sverrisson, Editor-in-Chief, Montel News. From market resilience and infrastructure investment to energy security and the changing geopolitical landscape, this session will examine some of the key challenges and opportunities facing Finland's power system. 📍 Helsinki 📅 11 June 2026 There is still time to register and join the conversation. Register here for Finnish energy day: eu1.hubs.ly/H0vNWXZ0

France's balancing market is changing fast. With PICASSO now established and MARI introducing cross-border mFRR activations, traders are seeing new price signals, new volatility patterns, and new opportunities emerge across balancing and intraday markets. Join Clément Bouilloux today for a free live webinar exploring what these developments mean in practice and what market participants should be watching for during the rest of 2026. You'll learn: 🔹 How PICASSO and MARI are impacting French balancing prices 🔹 What the first MARI activations are revealing 🔹 Why imbalance prices are becoming more volatile 🔹 Where the opportunities and risks lie for traders, portfolio managers, and power producers 📅 Today, 4 June 2026 🕑 14:00 CET 🎙️ Live webinar with Q&A 🎟️ Free to attend Register now: eu1.hubs.ly/H0v53760

The battle for Nordic power market liquidity is far from over. ⚡ Exchange-traded Nordic power futures volumes have recovered, but they remain well below historical levels. At our Swedish Energy Day last Thursday, Suvi Paaso, Managing Director at Power-Deriva, highlighted how competition between exchanges is helping to rebuild liquidity in the Nordic financial power market. Before the energy crisis, exchange-traded volumes were around 800 TWh. Today, that figure is closer to 500 TWh, leaving a significant gap still to be recovered. The big question now is: where will liquidity ultimately concentrate, and who will win the race to attract market participants? Suvi joined Staffan Friberg (Nord Pool), Andreas Gillheim (NAET), and Arne Haugland (EEX) for a panel discussion on the future of the Nordic financial power market. 🎥 Watch the full panel from our Swedish Energy Day for free: video.montel.energy/secret/1…

Algo fests” blamed for “pumping” TTF volatility amid Iran war 🔎 Montel News investigates Are regulators keeping pace with the rise of algorithmic trading in Europe's gas markets? As the war in Iran has increased volatility across energy markets, traders and experts told Montel that headline-reading algorithms are playing a growing role in driving short-term price movements on the Dutch TTF gas hub: montelnews.com/news/f14e94da…

🇫🇮 Join us at Finnish Energy Day 2026 A full day of conversations exploring the forces shaping today’s energy markets. From power prices and demand growth to flexibility, energy security, renewables, policy and long-term market outlooks, Finnish Energy Day brings together industry experts and market participants to unpack the trends driving change across the Nordic and European energy landscape. The energy system is evolving rapidly. Understanding the shifts behind that evolution has never been more important. Join us for a day of insight, discussion, and market intelligence with leading voices from across the sector. 👉 Sign up here: eu1.hubs.ly/H0vNX1J0

Tomorrow: A deep dive into France's rapidly evolving balancing markets 🇫🇷 France's integration into the European balancing platforms PICASSO and MARI is already changing how balancing prices are formed, creating new opportunities and new risks for market participants. Join Clément Bouilloux for a free French-language webinar exploring the early market impacts, the latest activation data, and what traders should be watching for through the rest of 2026. Topics include: 🔹 The impact of PICASSO and MARI on French balancing prices 🔹 Early lessons from the first MARI activations 🔹 How imbalance price formation is evolving 🔹 Key signals and indicators for traders and market participants 📅 3 June 2026 🕑 14:00 CET 🎙️ Webinar conducted in French 🎟️ Free registration: eu1.hubs.ly/H0vNX1J0