Imbalance in Albania

Every hour the desk holds a position. Meters record what actually flowed. The gap is imbalance. It is a cost or a credit, not a trading strategy.

In Albania that gap is attributed to the balancing group and its BRP. Aggregation does not remove the gap; it only nets it inside the group.

Forecast error, nomination error and forced outages all show up here. That is why TradingDesk tracks imbalance risk next to the ALPEX curve.

Build the schedule from ALPEX day-ahead, ALPEX intraday and internal nominations. After the interval, collect metered energy.

Imbalance = actual − schedule (sign convention is defined in the official rules). The volume is priced with the official imbalance or dual-price method, only the published rules decide the formula.

This page does not publish a live imbalance price. When a feed exists it will be labelled with the source authority.

Imbalance is the last column on the TradingDesk: after Market Operations and Forecasting. If the score stays high into the peak, the desk looks at intraday first, then accepts residual imbalance with eyes open.