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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.
EditorialMarketsSwedenThe summer Malmö stopped paying German prices
Southern Sweden's only direct link to Germany went dark on 21 June. Six weeks later SE4 cleared at €3.70 while Germany paid €94.84.
By Vantage Editorial
EditorialMarketsFinlandThe calm after the glut
Finnish price volatility fell 84% below its two-year norm in the week to 20 July. It was the flattest month in our data, and a pay cut for every flexible megawatt.
By Vantage Editorial
EditorialMarketsThe month the map flipped
In June 2026 Europe’s negative-price geography inverted: Germany lost 100 negative hours year on year, Finland 113, and Iberia gained what the north gave up.
By Vantage Editorial
EditorialMarketsScarcity at sunset
The June 2026 heat dome inverted a solar-saturated grid: €54 at midday, €549 at 20:00, a Belgian quarter-hour above €1,000. And the Rhine act is still running.
By Vantage Editorial
EditorialMarketsSwedenFour prices, one machine
In July 2026, power averaged €16/MWh in Sweden's north and €95 in its south, a 6× gap in one synchronous grid, as Stockholm blocked 11 offshore wind farms.
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
EditorialMarketsFranceWhen the rivers ran warm: how France's nuclear fleet broke in 2022
Warm rivers and millimetre-deep cracks took Europe's biggest power machine to a thirty-year low and made France a net importer for the first time since 1980.
By Vantage Editorial