
How Energy Data Standards Enable Market Interoperability
Fragmented data formats create friction in energy markets. Standardisation through CIM, IEC protocols, and emerging APIs supports efficiency.
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Analysis, research, and perspectives on energy data infrastructure, market settlement, and institutional real assets.

Fragmented data formats create friction in energy markets. Standardisation through CIM, IEC protocols, and emerging APIs supports efficiency.

An institutional guide to demand-side response mechanisms, aggregator models, and why load flexibility is emerging as a valuable asset class.

An institutional guide to the mechanisms, frameworks, and price formation dynamics that enable integrated electricity trading across European borders.

How locational marginal pricing shapes asset valuation, investment decisions, and grid efficiency across different market designs.

Accurate metering data underpins electricity market settlement, asset valuation, and regulatory compliance — yet poor data quality costs the industry millions annually.

A comprehensive guide to capacity market design, auction structures, de-rating factors, and what capacity agreements mean for project finance.

How network constraints, negative pricing, and system balancing create curtailment risk for renewable energy assets and strategies to mitigate revenue impact.

How the GB Balancing Mechanism maintains grid stability through bid-offer pairs, gate closure, and cash-out pricing mechanisms.

How battery energy storage systems earn revenue from multiple market services simultaneously — wholesale trading, frequency response, capacity market, and balancing mechanism.

An institutional guide to metering, reporting, and settlement in Great Britain's electricity market—and why data accuracy underpins market trust.