Market news · Germany
German power market news and briefings
Every Vantage story on the DE-LU bidding zone: daily updates from the market, plus briefings and editorials built on our own data. Newest first. The permanent statistics for Germany sit below the feed, and the full feed covers every European zone.
EditorialGridGermanyThe bridge that fed a quarter of Berlin
How an arson fire on one cable bridge severed fifteen cables and left 45,000 south-west Berlin households dark for more than four midwinter days.
By Vantage Editorial
BriefingsMarketsGermanyGerman 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 Vantage Editorial
EditorialGridGermanyThe wire Bavaria buried
Germany spent €3.071bn in 2025 moving electricity that had nowhere to go, then refused the market split its own operators’ study recommends.
By Vantage Editorial
EditorialSolarGermanyThe summer power cost less than nothing
Why Europe’s sunniest Sundays now clear below zero, who pays to generate at minus 250 euros, and why the system cannot simply switch the solar off.
By Vantage Editorial
EditorialMarketsGermanyDunkelflaute: the weeks the wind forgot Germany
Two windless, sunless weeks in late 2024 pushed German day-ahead prices past 900 €/MWh, exported the pain to Oslo and Stockholm, and put cables on the ballot.
By Vantage Editorial