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Electricity prices, production costs, and export competitiveness: What Serbian manufacturers face when selling into the EU

Electricity pricing has shifted from a background cost to a central competitive variable for Serbian export-oriented production. For companies selling into the European Union, power prices now influence operating margins, contract structure, carbon exposure, and long-term bankability. This is no longer theoretical; it is already embedded in buyer behavior, procurement models, and compliance frameworks. To […]

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Policy without borders: How Montenegro–Italy coupling constrains domestic energy intervention

Electricity market coupling is often discussed in technical or commercial terms, but its most profound effects are political. By linking Montenegro’s market directly to Italy’s, coupling effectively removes the border as a buffer between domestic energy policy and European price formation. This fundamentally constrains the scope for unilateral intervention in the power sector. Before coupling,

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Fragmented convergence: Why Southeast Europe will not integrate into one electricity market

For much of the past decade, the dominant assumption shaping policy and market design in Southeast Europe has been that electricity market integration would follow a linear path. National markets would first converge regionally, harmonising rules and price formation across the Balkans, and only then gradually integrate into the wider European internal electricity market. The

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Storage and balancing economics in an Adriatic-linked SEE market, 2030–2040

The Montenegro–Italy electricity market coupling does more than integrate two markets. It reshapes the economics of flexibility across Southeast Europe, particularly in relation to storage and balancing. As renewable penetration accelerates and price volatility shifts from energy scarcity to flexibility scarcity, the Adriatic corridor emerges as a focal point for storage value creation. Italy’s power

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Hydro as a European flexibility asset: Montenegro’s reservoirs in a coupled Italy–SEE system

For decades, Montenegro’s hydroelectric system has been perceived primarily through a regional lens. Its reservoirs and run-of-river plants were valued as instruments of domestic supply security and, at most, as balancing assets for neighbouring Balkan systems. Market coupling with Italy fundamentally redefines this role. Montenegro’s hydro fleet is no longer optimised against a regional Balkan

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From arbitrage to algorithms: How market coupling reshapes SEE power desks

The transition from explicit capacity allocation to market coupling between Montenegro and Italy marks a decisive shift in how electricity trading value is created in Southeast Europe. It represents the end of a trading model built around physical control of interconnection capacity and the rise of one centred on data, forecasting and algorithmic optimisation. For

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The Adriatic price axis: How Montenegro–Italy coupling creates a new European electricity corridor

The coupling of Montenegro’s electricity market with Italy’s marks the emergence of a new structural feature in Europe’s power market architecture: an Adriatic price axis linking a Mediterranean EU core market directly with the Western Balkans. This development does not simply improve cross-border trade efficiency. It reshapes how prices form, how risk propagates, and how

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Trading Southeast Europe’s power markets: A practical playbook for signals, timing, and risk

Electricity trading in Southeast Europe (SEE) is no longer about forecasting average prices. It is about understanding when prices break away from expectations, where congestion appears before it is visible in spot markets, and how volatility migrates across borders. Traders who still approach SEE with a baseload-import-versus-export mindset are systematically mispricing risk. Those who treat

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Spreads, congestion, and flexibility: Why SEE has become Europe’s real power trading arena

Electricity trading in Southeast Europe (SEE) has entered a new phase. The region is no longer defined by static net import or export positions, nor by simple convergence toward EU benchmarks. Instead, SEE has become Europe’s most dynamic trading arena—a zone where spreads, congestion, and flexibility determine value far more than average price levels. The

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How Europe’s power market redesign is exporting volatility into Southeast Europe

Europe’s electricity market is not becoming calmer. It is becoming more precise. The distinction matters profoundly for Southeast Europe (SEE). What is often described as stabilisation at the EU level—through market redesign, long-term contracts, and pricing reform—is in practice a redistribution of volatility. Increasingly, that volatility is being exported east and south into the SEE

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