The Dutch dispatch model runs 14 optimisations to imitate real-world intraday trading

Price visibility at each market step, from day-ahead through the intraday auction to continuous intraday

Day-ahead price
Intraday auction (IDA2) price
Perfect foresight ID3 & aFRRE prices
Smoothed ID3 & merit-order aFRRE prices
Locked-in position
Delivery hour
Day-ahead
IDA2
Continuous intraday
Optimisation run (market step) →

Source: Modo Energy

Note: rows are delivery hours. The Index optimises at 15-minute granularity from October 2025.

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