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 […]

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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

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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

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The line that could change everything: Why the Trans-Balkan Corridor is the real decision point for SEE power

Infrastructure does not lie. Where political speeches can overpromise and strategies can remain theoretical, infrastructure exposes whether a region truly intends to change. In South-East Europe, the Trans-Balkan Electricity Corridor is more than a transmission project. It is the moment where electricity rhetoric finally meets the physical world — and where a region must decide

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Carbon costs at the door: How CBAM forces the Western Balkans to confront Its electricity reality

Europe’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism is often discussed as a technical climate policy, but in truth it is one of the most powerful instruments ever aimed at redefining industrial, trade and energy behaviour. For the Western Balkans, CBAM does something more decisive still: it ends comfortable ambiguity. It makes electricity not simply a domestic policy

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Europe sets the rules, SEE faces the consequences: The cross-border test that will redefine regional power

Europe’s seventy-percent cross-zonal electricity rule is not a bureaucratic exercise. It is a structural redefinition of how power markets in Europe are meant to behave. The principle is blunt: at least seventy percent of available cross-border transmission capacity must be made open for electricity trading. This obligation operationalises a strategic truth — that modern electricity

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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

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Oil in SEE and Europe’s strategic transition: Between old dependencies and a future that is already changing

Europe’s energy transformation is most visible in electricity markets and gas security strategies. But underneath those headline developments, another strategic system continues to shape economies, geopolitics and vulnerabilities: oil. Unlike gas, oil has not disappeared from Europe’s energy conversation. Unlike electricity, it cannot be redesigned via market rules into cleaner form. Oil remains physical, global,

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Power and gas in South-East Europe: Europe’s new energy era meets the region’s old realities

Europe is rewriting its energy future. Electricity markets are being redesigned for precision, flexibility and integration. Gas politics have shifted from dependency illusion to hardened resilience. For many parts of the EU core, this transformation has already begun stabilising energy systems, restoring confidence and building the backbone of a decarbonising industrial continent. In South-East Europe,

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Gas in South-East Europe and Europe’s next strategic reality: Interdependence, exposure and the unfinished transition

For two decades, Europe believed that liberalised gas markets, diversified suppliers and rules-based infrastructure would guarantee stability. That illusion collapsed with Russia’s war in Ukraine. What followed was the most dramatic gas restructuration seen in modern Europe: supply routes redrawn, LNG capacity rushed into existence, pipeline politics replaced by resilience politics, and gas transformed from

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