European Power Exchanges

Powering Strategic Arbitrage in Europe's Volatile Energy Market

The Challenge

A major European power trader needed to capitalize on arbitrage opportunities across the continent's energy markets, significantly disrupted by the war in Ukraine. Existing data solutions fell short, lacking comprehensive coverage of the 20+ exchanges publishing crucial day-ahead auction data. The trader required direct access to source data to build a proprietary pricing engine, avoiding reliance on potentially inaccurate third-party pricing algorithms.

The Hermes Intelligence Solution

We provided a single, unified data feed covering 20+ European power exchanges, including emerging markets previously inaccessible. This eliminated the complexity of connecting to multiple disparate systems. Our bespoke Quality Assurance processes ensured the highest levels of data accuracy and reliability, empowering the trader to build a robust, source-driven pricing model.

The Impact

  • Unlocking New Opportunities: Our client gained immediate access to comprehensive day-ahead auction data across Europe, including previously underserved markets, revealing new arbitrage opportunities unavailable through traditional data providers.
  • Accelerated Time to Market: Strategy deployment time plummeted from 7 days to just 1 day, eliminating complex engineering and infrastructure hurdles.
  • Significant Cost Savings: Data acquisition costs were immediately reduced by 50%, and operational costs associated with data processing decreased dramatically from one month to one week.

Hermes Intelligence provided the key to unlocking arbitrage opportunities in a complex and volatile market. Unified data feed and rigorous quality assurance allowed to build a powerful pricing engine and deploy our strategies with unprecedented speed and efficiency.