Why Volton

Day-ahead electricity market — trading screen with charts

Day-ahead market: pricing an hour that has not happened yet

Every day at noon CET, an algorithm sets the price of electricity for every hour of tomorrow. The day-ahead auction is the reference the rest of the energy industry hangs off.

Intraday electricity market — server rack with blinking green LEDs

Intraday market — after the auction, reality drifts

After the noon auction closes, intraday opens — a continuous order book that runs until close to delivery. It is where flexibility actually pays.

Power futures — handshake on a long-dated electricity contract

Power futures: how a wind farm gets its loan approved

Forward contracts on electricity, traded on Nasdaq Commodities and EEX, let buyers fix a price for delivery months or years ahead. Most settle financially against the day-ahead spot.

Power Purchase Agreements — wind turbine against blue sky

PPAs — how long-term contracts financed the renewable boom

Power Purchase Agreements are 5–15 year bilateral contracts between renewable generators and corporate offtakers. They probably did more for Europe’s energy transition than any subsidy.

FCR — high-voltage transmission pylons at sunset

FCR: what catches the grid when a reactor trips

Frequency Containment Reserve activates within 30 seconds of a frequency deviation, fully automatic, no TSO signal. Batteries dominate it. It is what made grid-scale storage economically viable.

aFRR — server racks and grid control systems

aFRR, the reserve in the middle

Automatic Frequency Restoration Reserve activates in ~30 seconds via TSO control signal, follows it on a 4-second cycle, and pulls the grid back to 50 Hz. PICASSO is quietly transforming the market.

mFRR — where Estonian battery profits come from

Manual Frequency Restoration Reserve is activated by a human operator, with full delivery in 12.5 minutes. In Estonia, it is currently the most lucrative balancing market for batteries.

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