by Poppy | Jun 29, 2026 | Uncategorized
On the evening of 24 June 2026, somewhere inside the algorithms that clear Belgium’s day-ahead electricity market, a single 15-minute window came back with a price of 1.038,25 €/MWh. By the standards of an ordinary summer evening, that number is almost absurd,...
by Poppy | Jun 23, 2026 | Uncategorized
Belgium’s day-ahead power market printed an all-time high on Tuesday: 1.038,25 €/MWh for the 15-minute window starting at 20:45 CEST on Wednesday 24 June. To find a comparable Belgian price, you have to go back to 28 March 2011, when a software error briefly...
by Poppy | Jun 23, 2026 | Uncategorized
23.06.2026 10sEnergy 23.06.2026 Press ReleaseDownload New Belgian energy supplier helps households take advantage of 15-minute real time energy pricing and prepares consumers for an increasingly electric future. Brussels, Belgium — 23.06.2026 — A new entrant in...
by Poppy | May 27, 2026 | Uncategorized
Every 15 minutes, Elia sets a price that determines whether it is cheap or expensive to use electricity right now. We analysed a full year of data to find out how well you can guess that price — before it happens. First, what is an imbalance price? The electricity...
by Poppy | May 27, 2026 | Uncategorized
For Belgian EV drivers, smart charging used to be a simple proposition. Plug in at night, avoid the expensive evening peak, pay less. Then the capacity tariff arrived, dynamic contracts multiplied, and real-time balancing prices started doing things that nobody had...
by Poppy | May 6, 2026 | Uncategorized
Grid infrastructure · Flanders · Deep dive Published May 2026 · Reading time: ~10 min · Sources: VREG, Fluvius, VNR, Flanders government The capacity tariff didn’t arrive from nowhere. It was decades in the making, and understanding its history tells you more...
by Poppy | Mar 18, 2026 | Dynamic Tariff, Energy Contracts
Dynamic energy tariffs did not begin with households and EV owners. They began with industry. Large industrial consumers have had access to some form of market-linked pricing for decades — it was simply not available at smaller scales. As technology has made granular...
by Poppy | Mar 18, 2026 | Dynamic Tariff, Heat Pumps, Real-Time Price
Heat pumps are one of the most important technologies in the residential energy transition — but they are also significant electricity consumers. A heat pump in a well-insulated Belgian home might consume 3,000-5,000 kWh of electricity per year for heating and hot...
by Poppy | Mar 18, 2026 | Dynamic Tariff, EV Charging, Tariff
Electric vehicles and dynamic energy tariffs were made for each other. It is one of the cleanest value propositions in the entire energy transition: a large, flexible, deferrable load, combined with a tariff structure that rewards you for choosing when to charge. The...
by Poppy | Mar 18, 2026 | Grid
Belgium might seem like an unlikely place for dynamic energy tariffs to take hold. It is a small, densely populated country with a historically centralised energy system built around nuclear power. But a combination of infrastructure investment, regulatory progress,...
