Read the briefing, open the terminal, keep the archive nearby.
The public briefing gives the current market state. The subscriber terminal goes deeper into regime, balancing, curve shape, pricing, and grid structure. The archive remains the longer memory behind those surfaces.
Three ways into the product.
1. Use the public briefing for the current state and the fastest route into the day.
2. Use the terminal for regime, balancing, pricing, and structural views.
3. Use the archive for the longer argument, revisions, and framework history.
A few posts that frame the market first.
Open guides that connect essays to live tools.
The lab section is where public explainers live: a clear market question, the relevant background, and direct links into the attached live tools.
The current featured release is The Curves Behind the Price of Power, which links the pricing-rule debate to reserve auctions, day-ahead reconstruction, and the live market terminal.
The essays and archive remain the longer memory of the product.
The site keeps the market terminal live in data. The ideas, revisions, and broader argument still live on Stratnergy.
Frameworks behind the terminal
A daily classifier for the dominant state in German power and balancing prices.
A daily read on German short-term dislocation and forecasting-error stress.
A reserve-system framework linking contracted capacity, the energy stack, realized activation, and TSO burden.
A framework for valuing day-ahead curve shape through hourly high-low swap structures.
A structural read on Germany's grid constraints, storage coverage, and asynchronous transition.
What the site is trying to do
- Daily rather than tick-driven.
- Framework-led rather than dashboard-led.
- Live values set against longer historical context.
- Essays remain the narrative source of truth.
Core data basis
- Energy-Charts for overlapping German power-market series, including DE-LU day-ahead.
- Netztransparenz for balancing-native German settlement layers such as ID-AEP and reBAP.
- Regelleistung for FCR and aFRR product and bid data.
- ENTSO-E where equivalence has been established dataset by dataset.