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Serbia versus Romania: How coal retirements are redrawing regional power flows

The divergence between Serbia and Romania in the 2025–2028 period marks one of the most consequential structural shifts in South-East Europe’s power system. While both countries entered the decade with comparable roles as regional anchors—large thermal fleets, significant hydro assets, and strong cross-border interconnections—their trajectories have separated sharply as Romania accelerates coal retirements and Serbia […]

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SEE power trading prices in 2026: A fuel-CO₂-hydro model for thermal dispatch, cross-border spreads and coal supply risk

South-East Europe’s 2026 power price formation will be dominated by a three-variable stack that has become more binding than any single national policy lever: the European gas price level that sets the marginal fuel cost for the region’s gas fleets, the CO₂ price that lifts the thermal floor in every EU-linked bidding zone and therefore

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SEE thermal power and coal in 2026: A quantified forecast linked to hydro swings, CO₂ pricing, coal mining supply, and regional trading

Thermal power in South-East Europe in 2026 will not be determined by a single “coal versus renewables” narrative. It will be determined by how much hydropower the region actually receives, how high the CO₂ price floor sits across European-linked markets, how reliably coal mining can deliver lignite tonnage to power plants, and how much cross-border

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Hydropower in South-East Europe in 2026 with Serbia as the anchor: A quantitative forecast linked to prices, trading and balancing value

Hydropower will be the decisive swing factor for South-East Europe in 2026 because it is simultaneously energy, seasonal storage, and the region’s cheapest source of flexibility. The market has increasingly learned that the same installed hydro fleet can produce two radically different economic outcomes depending on inflows: in a wet year, hydro compresses day-ahead prices,

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SEE gas infrastructure in 2026: LNG gateways, storage depth, market players, and the trends reshaping pricing and security

South-East Europe’s gas market has stopped behaving like a collection of national utilities buying pipeline molecules and passing them through regulated tariffs. It is turning into a corridor-and-liquidity system where the marginal price is increasingly set by LNG access, storage withdrawal rates, and cross-border interconnector capacity rather than by any single long-term contract. The region

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South-East Europe’s refining system and Serbia’s turning point under a MOL takeover

South-East European refining is not defined by refinery nameplates alone. It is defined by who controls crude access, who can finance inventories through cycles, and who owns the corridors that physically move oil. In this system, refineries behave less like isolated industrial plants and more like nodes inside a politically and financially constrained logistics network.

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How U.S. energy strategy is reshaping Southeast Europe’s gas market

Southeast Europe’s gas market entered 2025 in a structurally different position from where it stood only a few years earlier. The transformation has been driven less by short-term price movements and more by a deliberate geopolitical and infrastructure strategy in which the United States has assumed a central role. The November 2025 analysis by the

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Investment flows in the Southeast Europe energy market in 2025: Capital, risk and strategic repositioning

Investment flows into the Southeast Europe energy sector in 2025 represent one of the clearest signals that the region has moved from being perceived as a peripheral, high-risk energy market to a structurally relevant investment destination within the broader European energy transition. While total capital volumes remain below those deployed in core EU markets such as Germany,

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SEE energy market 2025: Strategic shifts in gas security and market dynamics

The energy landscape in Southeast Europe in 2025 is defined by several converging pressures: enduring structural dependence on imported natural gas, ongoing price segmentation, evolving infrastructure tied to LNG and interconnectors, and the region’s shifting role at the nexus of European energy security policy. These dynamics are shaped by both market forces and geopolitical shifts, reflecting broader

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Natural gas market and energy security In Southeast Europe: From import dependence to strategic optionality

The evolution of the natural gas market in Southeast Europe has become one of the most consequential structural themes in the region’s broader energy transition and industrial competitiveness debate. Unlike electricity, where SEE countries possess significant domestic generation capacity through hydro, coal, nuclear in Bulgaria, and increasingly renewables, gas has historically been the system’s weakest

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