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German negative-price hours collapsed 71 % in June 2026
At 41 hours, DE recorded its lowest June negative-price count in the 37-month sample, a z-score of −3.57.
By Matthias Blank · drafted with the Vantage newsroom system, approved before publication

German day-ahead prices turned negative for just 41 hours in June 2026: a 70.9 % decline from the 37-month baseline of 141 hours and a 100-hour drop versus June 2025, the starkest year-on-year contraction recorded in this dataset.
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