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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 updatesMarketsHigh gas prices drive European power producers back to coal
Elevated TTF levels are shifting the merit order, making coal competitive again across multiple European bidding zones.
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Daily updatesMarketsNord Pool day-ahead prices fall to record low
Electricity prices on the Nord Pool exchange hit a record-low level, according to Latvia's Public Utilities Commission.
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Daily updatesMarketsEEX reshapes solar futures timing and launches TB power market maker scheme
EEX announced two product changes: amended hours for Solar Block futures and a new market maker initiative for TB Power Futures.
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Daily updatesMarketsEuronext Nord Pool Power Futures goes live
The joint Euronext and Nord Pool power futures venue is now operational, adding a new trading layer to European electricity markets.
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Daily updatesMarketsGas storage shortfall drives European power prices to 3-year high
Tight gas inventories are pushing wholesale electricity prices to levels not seen since 2023, with Baltic spot rates nearing €400/MWh.
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Daily updatesMarketsLithuania hits highest price in more than six months as Nordic markets tighten
Nord Pool data show Lithuanian wholesale power at its highest level in over six months, with Finland also flagging an early-week spike.
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Daily updatesMarketsRising negative prices reshape Europe's solar, storage and PPA markets
S&P Global links wider price spreads to a stronger investment case for batteries and structured renewable contracts.
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Daily updatesMarketsOctopus Energy buys Danish automated power trader BD Energy
The acquisition adds algorithmic short-term trading capability to Octopus's European market operations.
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Daily updatesMarketsEuropean power market headlines: 26 August
Two market updates cross the wire today, covering Finnish power dynamics and a broader European markets rundown.
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Daily updatesMarketsEEX resolves available capacity data delay for DE and AT zones
A data alert delay affecting published available capacity updates for the German and Austrian zones has been fixed, per EEX.
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Daily updatesMarketsLithuania wholesale power price surges 84% in a single week
A sharp weekly spike in the Lithuanian bidding zone highlights the tighter energy market conditions flagged across Europe through 2027.
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Daily updatesMarketsEEX to launch renewable power futures and handysize freight futures
EEX is adding new Renewable Power Futures and additional Handysize Freight Futures to its derivatives suite.
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Daily updatesMarketsLithuania electricity prices spike on Nord Pool
A price spike in the Lithuanian bidding zone was reported by Nord Pool, per Infoerdve.lt.
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Daily updatesMarketsEuronext and Nord Pool to launch Nordic-Baltic power futures market
The two exchanges will jointly operate a new listed futures venue covering Nordic and Baltic bidding zones.
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Daily updatesMarketsUK energy price cap set for three-year high this October
Cornwall Insight forecasts the GB price cap will reach a three-year high, lifting household bills heading into winter.
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Daily updatesMarketsGrid positioning shapes renewable returns beyond LCOE, Aurora argues
Aurora Energy Research says where a project sits on the grid is a key driver of capture prices and overall project returns.
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Daily updatesMarketsRTE éCO2mix market data update: French zone live feed refreshed
RTE published a fresh éCO2mix market data release for the French bidding zone.
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Daily updatesMarketsEEX group monthly volumes for July 2026 released
EEX published its July 2026 exchange-traded power and emissions volume figures.
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Daily updatesMarketsCIP closes $3bn growth fund with $1.6bn deployed across nine deals
Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners' GMF II reaches final close as clean energy capital allocation accelerates.
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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.
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Daily updatesMarketsHeatwave lifts European power prices as French nuclear, German wind fall
A summer heatwave is curbing French nuclear output and German wind generation, pushing day-ahead prices higher across the continent.
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BriefingsMarketsSE4 July 2026: highest YoY price swing in Europe at +88.9%
SE4 averaged €78.22/MWh in July 2026, up 88.9% from €41.42/MWh a year earlier, the largest YoY gain across all tracked zones.
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Daily updatesMarketsDay-ahead 15-minute resolution transition delayed to 30 September 2025
Energinet has pushed back the shift to quarter-hour day-ahead trading.
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Daily updatesMarketsEEX publishes final settlement prices for financial power futures July 2026
EEX released settlement prices for July 2026 financial power futures, closing out the front-month contract.
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Daily updatesMarketsTU Delft framework targets arbitrage and ancillary markets via home assets
A new optimization system jointly dispatches rooftop PV, batteries, heat pumps, and EVs across energy and ancillary service markets.
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Daily updatesMarketsAurora flags rising negative price exposure across European zones
Aurora Energy Research publishes analysis on the spread and market impact of negative day-ahead prices across Europe.
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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.
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Daily updatesMarketsItaly's zero-price hours jump 340% in H1 2026
Wholesale hours at zero hit 88 in the first half of 2026, up from 20 in H1 2025, as solar supply pressure intensifies.
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Daily updatesMarketsEDF cuts full-year earnings outlook as heatwave drives low power prices
EDF flags weaker 2026 earnings, while Engie posts a 3% H1 rise on gas trading and grid income.
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Daily updatesMarketsNegative power prices framed as investor opportunity by Reuters
A Reuters investor view published 27 July argues that recurring negative wholesale prices signal a structural market gap worth exploiting.
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Daily updatesMarketsLithuanian power prices drop 7% in a single week
The Lithuanian bidding zone recorded a 7% week-on-week fall in power prices, per Infoerdve.lt citing Nord Pool data.
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Daily updatesMarketsGas futures surge pushes European power above €110/MWh
Weekly average spot prices topped €110/MWh across most major European markets as gas futures hit their highest since March.
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BriefingsMarketsDK1DK1 June 2026: negative hours collapse 77 % year-on-year
27 negative hours in June 2026 versus 116 at baseline, a z-score of -3.34 across 37 months of history.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Daily updatesMarketsLithuanian day-ahead prices fell 49% in mid-January, 36% in February
Two consecutive months of sharp price declines in the Lithuanian bidding zone point to sustained oversupply conditions in the Baltic market.
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