Norway · the reserve markets

What a megawatt is paid in Norway’s reserve markets is calculated every day and held until Statnett allows it to be shown

Statnett buys FCR, aFRR and mFRR by bidding zone and publishes every price and volume on its Driftsdata pages, with history back to 2013. This site reads all of it every day and works out what one megawatt would have been paid, product by product and zone by zone, by the method it uses for Finland. Statnett states no terms for reuse, so nothing derived from its files is shown yet.

Held: Statnett’s reserve figuresStatnett publishes every reserve price and volume, by zone and hour, on its Driftsdata pages, and this site reads them every day with their full history. Statnett states no terms for reusing them, so every figure calculated from them is held here until Statnett says in writing that it may be shown. A letter asking is drafted.

Held: eSett’s imbalance priceeSett, which settles Norway’s imbalances, publishes the imbalance price and a storage column in its production figures. Its terms say the data is public and needs no authorisation, and say nothing about republishing it, so these figures are held until eSett confirms they may be shown.

What the page will show once Statnett agrees

For each zone, NO1 to NO5, and each product Statnett publishes, FCR-N, FCR-D up, aFRR up and down, and mFRR up and down, what one megawatt would have been paid each month since the product’s prices begin (FCR-N from May 2019, aFRR from January 2023, mFRR from February 2024), the best hour by hour stack of them, how much of each product Statnett actually buys, and where in Norway a battery would be paid most. A second calculation, written separately, checks every figure to the cent before it is published.

What is never shown

Energy trading, because the day-ahead price is Nord Pool’s and Nord Pool declined permission. FFR and FCR-D down, because Statnett’s Driftsdata files carry neither. What any battery earned, because Statnett publishes the markets and not the bidders.

Statnett Driftsdata, driftsdata.statnett.no, the “Last ned grunndata” files: FCR CM D-1 and D-2, aFRR CM and mFRR CM, aFRR and mFRR activation, and RKOM, read every day into no/driftsdata/ by no/tools/capture_driftsdata.py. The calculation is no/tools/revenue.py.