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One engine, every grid

Voltaic speaks each market's dialect - its price cap, its settlement interval, its volatility. The optimiser is the same; the rules are local.

NEM

LiveNational Electricity Market

The world's most volatile grid: deep negative solar troughs by day, four-figure evening spikes, settled every five minutes. Voltaic's home market.

Avg price
$87
Volatility
Very high
Price cap
$20,300/MWh
Floor
-$1,000/MWh
Australia - 5 regions+6.2%

ERCOT

ExpandingTexas Interconnection

Nodal pricing and scarcity adders make tails enormous. Wind-rich, weather-exposed, and a proving ground for fast-acting storage.

Avg price
$41
Volatility
Extreme tails
Price cap
$5,000/MWh
Floor
-$251/MWh
Texas, USA - nodal-1.1%

EPEX

ExpandingEPEX SPOT

Day-ahead auctions plus continuous intraday. Renewables build structural duck curves across Germany, France and the Nordics.

Avg price
$92
Volatility
Structural
Price cap
EUR 4,000/MWh
Floor
-EUR 500/MWh
Central Europe - day-ahead + intraday+2.2%

The NEM, region by region

RegionPortfolioEnergySpotNet
QLD1Queensland250 MW375 MWh$78idle
NSW1New South Wales420 MW630 MWh$184discharge
VIC1Victoria300 MW450 MWh$162discharge
SA1South Australia180 MW270 MWh-$34charge
TAS1Tasmania60 MW90 MWh$71idle