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Ancillary service markets have grown in relevance as renewable penetration increases and negative price events become more frequent across European power systems. For producers, participation in these markets, particularly aFRR and mFRR, has emerged as an important additional income stream for periods when low electricity prices reduce what generators can earn from selling power alone. Usually, public data on these markets can be fragmented and incomplete, leading to confusion and worse decision-making on the part of producers. To address this, Synertics bridges that gap by embedding a historical pricing view directly into the Synertics Energy Management Tool (SEMT).
The SEMT Market Intelligence tab now includes historical ancillary service prices for selected countries, covering the aFRR and mFRR reserve markets. In ancillary service markets, producers are paid simply for making capacity available to the grid, regardless of whether that capacity is ever called upon. This availability payment, known as the reserve price, is the predictable and bankable part of the revenue. Any activation payment on top of that depends entirely on real-time grid decisions that no producer can anticipate, making it more of an upside than a planning assumption. To build a solid understanding of these services, the natural starting point is the reserve market, as it reflects the stable and contractual side of ancillary service participation.
This data allows producers and market representatives to understand how these markets have behaved over time and evaluate whether the prices at which market agents participated in the past were commercially attractive.
This functionality is now live in our Tool.
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