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Three ways to read the market: Daily updates keep you current in two minutes, Briefings dig into the numbers behind the week's moves, and Editorials tell the long stories of how Europe's power system really behaves. Combine the filters below to narrow what you see. Pick as many as you want at each level.
BriefingsBESSSpainSpanish BESS spread hits €237/MWh: a 148% premium to baseline
The 27 July 2026 intraday spread in the ES zone reached the 99th percentile of a 730-day sample, z-score 3.86.
By Vantage Editorial
BriefingsBESSSpainSpanish BESS spread hits 99.9th percentile in W31 2026
The 7-day mean daily spread in the ES zone reached €178.8/MWh: 87.6% above the 733-day baseline of €95.3/MWh and a z-score of 3.29.
By Vantage Editorial
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
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
EditorialGridSpainFive seconds in April: anatomy of the Iberian blackout
How a voltage surge nobody had planned for switched off Spain and Portugal in under thirty seconds, and what the overnight restart reveals about AC grids.
By Vantage Editorial