A power trading desk buys and sells electricity across day-ahead, intraday, and balancing markets, managing generation, customer load, and grid constraints in a market that clears every hour and sometimes every five minutes. Running one demands systems built for granularity, speed, and compliance obligations that most trading software never has to face.
Most articles about power trading explain the trade lifecycle. Far fewer explain how you actually build the systems that run it, and almost none address the thing that quietly determines whether a power desk implementation succeeds or drags into its third year: compliance is not a phase you add at the end. It is a property of every design decision you make from sprint one.
