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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.
Daily updatesGridIreland and Finland tackle grid bottlenecks with separate policy moves
Dublin's 15-measure action plan and Helsinki's proposed connection priority system both target congestion blocking new capacity.
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Daily updatesGridTerna releases 2025 grid development plan overview
Italy's TSO has published its 2025 Development Plan, setting out the investment roadmap for the Italian transmission grid.
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Daily updatesGridSpain-Portugal 400 kV northern link opens, adding 1,000 MW capacity
The Pontevedra–Viana do Castelo interconnection raises cross-border transfer capacity to 4,200 MW westbound and 3,500 MW eastbound.
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Daily updatesGridSpain's August electricity demand rises 2.4% on adjusted basis
Renewables covered 53.6% of Spanish generation in August, with solar PV leading for a fifth straight month.
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Daily updatesGridSpain raises planned grid investment to over €17 bln through 2030
The revised figure marks an increase on prior plans and signals accelerating Spanish transmission build-out to 2030.
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Daily updatesGridBelgian energy island construction begins in North Sea
Elia places first structural elements of the Princess Elisabeth Island, a hub linking future offshore wind capacity to shore.
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Daily updatesGridNational Grid launches local voltage flexibility service
The new service targets local voltage management, adding a demand-side tool alongside existing system-wide balancing products.
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Daily updatesGridNetherlands targets grid congestion with faster connection law
New Dutch legislation aims to halve permitting and connection timelines as congestion continues to constrain new capacity.
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Daily updatesGridElia locks in €1 bn EIB green loan for Princess Elisabeth Island
The European Investment Bank credit facility funds the second phase of Belgium's offshore energy island.
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Daily updatesGridEnerginet tightens grid connection rules to accelerate project queue
Denmark's TSO is introducing new requirements for projects seeking grid access, aiming to cut delays in the connection queue.
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Daily updatesGridElia and Amprion commit to second German-Belgian interconnector
The two TSOs have agreed to close collaboration on a new direct link between the Belgian and German bidding zones.
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Daily updatesGridGerman police respond to new power grid sabotage attempts
German authorities are reacting to fresh sabotage attempts on power grid infrastructure, according to Bild via Reuters.
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Daily updatesGridTenneT raises €2.5bn green bond as Germany probes grid sabotage
Dual-tranche issuance drew €17bn in orders; a second sabotage investigation raises hybrid-warfare concerns.
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Daily updatesGridBrandenburg power grid hit by sabotage attack, minister confirms
A German minister confirmed the Brandenburg transmission grid was deliberately targeted, per Reuters reporting.
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Daily updatesGridTerna breaks ground on Veneto–Emilia Romagna underground cable link
Italy's TSO starts construction on a new underground transmission line connecting the Veneto and Emilia Romagna zones.
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Daily updatesGridI-SEM constraint exposure flagged as grid congestion risk grows
Aurora Energy Research warns asset owners in the I-SEM to assess constraint exposure as grid pressure mounts.
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Daily updatesGridInterconnectors set to reshape Greece's power market, per Aurora
Aurora Energy Research says new cross-border links will drive structural market change in Greece, independent of geopolitical pressures.
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Daily updatesGridElia completes Princess Elisabeth Island foundations ahead of HVAC works
Jan De Nul and DEME placed the 22,000-tonne structures for Belgium's offshore energy hub, with HVAC installation now under way.
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Daily updatesGridTenneT completes Maasvlakte cable drilling for offshore wind link
Protective tubes are now installed, clearing a key civil works milestone for the Dutch offshore wind grid connection.
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Daily updatesGridGerman wind industry threatens legal action over grid reform
A proposed grid restructuring in Germany puts approved wind projects at risk, prompting the industry to signal litigation.
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Daily updatesGridRTE contracts 5,000+ km of HV underground cables from five European suppliers
France's transmission operator locks in strategic cable supply to support grid expansion and domestic industrial development.
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Daily updatesGridEurope's solar eclipse triggers grid backup mobilisation
TSOs across Europe and Britain activated reserves to cover solar output loss during the eclipse.
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Daily updatesGrid12 offshore TSOs push for integrated North Sea grid
A coalition of offshore transmission operators is aligning on a shared grid architecture to reduce Europe's dependence on imported energy.
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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.
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Daily updatesGridTerna and Sicily region sign agreement to build Italy–Tunisia power link
The deal advances a subsea HVDC interconnector that would be Italy's first direct electricity link to North Africa.
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Daily updatesGridRed Eléctrica begins submarine cable lay for Bay of Bizkaia France link
NKT's vessel Victoria is laying the first 65 km segment off the Basque coast, with offshore works running through summer 2027.
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Daily updatesGridRomania halts Dacia and Ford output as power crisis looms
Both carmakers suspend production until 19 August, according to Romanian PM, as the zone faces acute supply pressure.
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Daily updatesGridElia and CPP acquire Tarchon 1.4 GW UK–Germany interconnector
The subsea link will add 1.4 GW of cross-border capacity between the UK and German bidding zones.
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Daily updatesGridEnexis secures €500 million EIB loan for Dutch grid expansion
The European Investment Bank financing targets grid congestion relief as the Netherlands accelerates network investment.
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Daily updatesGridUK-Norway interconnector trading platform wins regulatory approval
Nord Pool's platform for the North Sea Link cable has been cleared by the regulator, opening the route to commercial operation.
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Daily updatesGridRed Eléctrica completes two substation upgrades in Aragón and Castellón
A €10 million expansion at Peñaflor and a new transformer at Betxí 220 kV reinforce supply to over 800,000 people and key industrial zones.
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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.
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Daily updatesGridUK government and Ofgem admit grid queue blunders
Both bodies concede failures in managing the GB grid connection queue, compounding delays for generation and storage developers.
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Daily updatesGridSpain-France Bay of Biscay link moves forward as transformers ship to Gatika
Red Eléctrica begins moving seven 315-tonne HVDC transformers from Bilbao to the Gatika converter station this month.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Daily updatesGridElia clears permitting hurdle for Ghent port grid reinforcement
Belgian TSO secures environmental permits for strategic transmission upgrades in the Port of Ghent, unlocking construction.
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