What the EPEX Shift to 15 minutes MTU Means for Your Business

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What the EPEX Shift to 15 minutes MTU Means for Your Business

A Granular Shift, A Broader Impact

On October 1, 2025, the EPEX day-ahead auction will transition to 15-minute Market Time Units, moving away from the traditional hourly format. While the change may seem procedural, its impact reaches far beyond technical adjustments.

This update reflects a larger industry trend toward greater precision, driven by the rise of renewables, increased volatility in intraday trading, and the growing need for real-time system balance. For energy companies, it is not just a question of updating systems, but of rethinking the way forecasting, bidding, valuation, and operations are approached.

In this blog, we explore the opportunities that this shift unlocks and how companies can prepare to take full advantage of them with the right strategy and support.

Capitalizing on the Shift to 15-Minute Trading

Smarter, Sharper Forecasting

Finer time intervals allow for more precise forecasting of production, consumption, and prices, especially beneficial for renewables and flexible assets. Improved accuracy leads to more competitive bidding, optimized dispatch, and reduced imbalance costs.

Deeper Risk and PnL Insights

With MTU-level data, companies can move beyond hourly averages to a more detailed view of volatility and exposure. This enables refined VaR models, 15-minute PnL explainability, and sharper stress testing across portfolios.

Enhanced Contract Structuring

PPAs and other market-based agreements can now be indexed to 15-minute prices, making them more reflective of actual production and load behavior. This creates opportunities to tailor contracts for storage, hybrid assets, and demand response.

Operational Agility and Automation

With better intraday visibility, operators can make faster, data-driven decisions around nominations, balancing, and asset optimization. The shift also lays the foundation for applying AI and ML across trading and operational workflows.

Competitive Differentiation

Early adopters who realign systems, models, and teams will be better positioned to innovate and lead. This is not just an operational change. It is a strategic opportunity to build smarter infrastructure and unlock new sources of value.

How Value Creed Can Help Companies Navigate This Transition

Transitioning to a 15-minute market environment requires more than technical compliance. It demands a partner who can connect strategic vision with
real-world execution across systems, data, and teams. Value Creed delivers both the foresight and the firepower to help you lead through change.

Strategic Advisory
Backing

We help you assess readiness, define priorities, and align your organization to succeed in a 15-minute market environment.

Cross-Functional
Planning

Our advisory team works across trading, risk, and operations to identify system and process gaps before they become roadblocks.

Expertise-on-Demand Delivery

Access specialized support to reengineer reports, contracts, forecasts, and data models, without pulling your teams off BAU.

End-to-End
Execution

From roadmap to implementation, we ensure alignment between strategy and system-level change.

Market and Regulatory Insight

We bring deep knowledge of ETRM platforms and evolving European market structures, including the drivers behind this shift.

Accelerated,
Low-Disruption Delivery

Our global delivery model ensures fast turnarounds and minimal internal disruption.

The Value Creed Advantage For Your Business

Accelerated Readiness

Our structured advisory approach helps you quickly identify priorities and implement solutions without losing momentum.

Enhanced Competitive Advantage

We enable more accurate forecasting, agile bidding strategies, and stronger risk visibility to help you lead in the 15-minute market.

Minimized Risk and Disruption

We ensure smooth execution with minimal impact on day-to-day operations, reducing errors and manual interventions.

Future-Proofed Infrastructure

We modernize your systems and data models to prepare you for today’s market and position you to capitalize on future shifts, including potential 5 minute MTUs.

Ready to Stay Ahead of the Curve?

Value Creed combines strategic advisory and deep technical expertise to help companies navigate change with speed and precision. With every market evolution such as the shift to 15-minute trading, Value Creed stays ahead by enabling clients to adapt quickly, optimize confidently, and unlock long-term value across systems, teams, and strategies.

We bring clarity to complexity and turn regulatory shifts into strategic advantages. From assessment to execution, we move with purpose so you can move with confidence.

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A Deep Dive into Bloomberg Integration with Value Creed

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