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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.
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
EditorialGridNetherlandsThe country that stopped promising power
Why 15,014 Dutch businesses are queueing for power they cannot have, what replaced the promise of firm capacity, and why households joined the queue on 1 July.
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