Learn the console, one screen at a time
Each screen answers one question and shows the answer. These pages carry everything behind it: what each control does, what each column means, what each state means, and how each number was arrived at. The console itself stays out of the explaining business.
Market snapshot
One bidding zone on one delivery day: prices, cross-border spreads, generation mix, and the day-ahead forecast against what actually happened. Read live from the publishers at request time.
- Market snapshot
How one delivery day is assembled live from the publishers, why the archive is context rather than source, and what each of the four sections answers.
Price comparison
Any markets and auction products on a single chart, over any range we hold, with the volume standing behind each line and the currency it cleared in stated rather than assumed.
- Price comparison
How a row is built from a market and a product, which clock the axis runs on, and why a volume line is solid or dashed.
Auction surveillance
Every delivery hour re-cleared against a merit order rebuilt from published fundamentals and screened for the hours that do not fit, with the published curves behind it and model error next to every finding.
- Merit-order surveillance
The reconstruction from inputs to screens, every column of the board and the ledger, and how a near miss is ranked.
- Bid curves
Where an aggregated curve comes from, what live, archived and derived each mean, and why a delivery day may be refused.
- Auction simulator
How your own ladder is re-cleared against the published book, what the counterfactual assumes, and why nothing you type is sent anywhere.
Balancing surveillance (Belgium)
The individual offers behind what the system paid to balance the market after every gate had closed, quarter-hour by quarter-hour, screened against each period's own trailing band. Published bids, not a reconstruction.
- Balancing merit order
How a quarter-hour is screened in both directions against its own trailing band, and what each of the four panels per direction shows.
- Settlement replay
How a settled imbalance price decomposes into a base price and a penalty component, and what the residual column is checking.
- Day-ahead carry-over
What the spread between the auction and the imbalance price is, what it is not, and why this view applies no threshold.
- Capacity auction
How reserve is procured in blocks, why the whole-day product is reported separately, and what the award cut means.
UMM assessment
Your cleared volume against what each delivery period actually traded, marked against the materiality threshold your own policy sets. A sizing aid for a disclosure decision, not a determination.
- UMM assessment
The four denominators a share can be measured against, which way each one is wrong, and what the counterfactual adds.
What is not here
The regulatory argument. Which REMIT typology a screen maps to, what a finding may claim, and why an indicator is never a determination are on the surveillance pages, and these link across to them rather than restating them.
Where each figure is read from is on data sources, and which zones and auctions are covered is on coverage. Nothing on any of these pages is tenant data: they explain a screen, not what any account sees on it.