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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.
EditorialGridThe week the Danube ran out
Record-low water walked Hungary’s four reactors down in seven steps, took a Romanian unit the same week, and repriced the CEE bloc 81 €/MWh above Germany.
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
EditorialGridThe frequency was free: what the Baltics actually bought when they left BRELL
The Baltics did not lose cheap Russian power when they cut the last nine wires. They lost a free frequency service, and this is the invoice for insourcing it.
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
EditorialGridThe countdown nobody could see
How one switch in a Croatian substation tore the continental grid in two in forty-three seconds, and why the defence plan that caught it could not save Iberia.
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