Vantage Energies

European power market statistics

Vantage Energies publishes 520 permanent fact pages covering 25 European bidding zones plus the EU gas market. Each permalink pins one statistic for one closed calendar month and states how it is computed; a page whose definition changes says when and what it counted before, so a figure cited today can be checked next year. Latest month: October 2026. Cite as: Vantage Energies · vantage-energies.com.

Statistics by zone

Austria

Belgium

Czechia

Denmark West

Estonia

Finland

France

Germany

Hungary

Italy Calabria

Italy Centre-North

Italy Centre-South

Italy North

Italy Sardinia

Italy Sicily

Italy South

Latvia

Lithuania

Netherlands

Norway NO2

Poland

Portugal

Romania

Spain

Switzerland

European Union

Statistics by metric

Day-ahead price average

Negative price hours

Gas storage filling level

Hub natural gas price

Frequently asked questions

What is a bidding zone?

A bidding zone is the area within which electricity is traded at one day-ahead price. Most European countries are a single zone (Germany with Luxembourg, France, Spain, the Netherlands); Italy, Norway, Sweden and Denmark are split into several. Vantage Energies publishes statistics per zone, using the zone codes of the ENTSO-E Transparency Platform.

How are the monthly averages computed?

Each monthly day-ahead average is the mean of the zone's hourly prices over CET/CEST wall-clock days from the first to the last day of the month, from auction prices published on the ENTSO-E Transparency Platform (Nord Pool public data for the Nordic and Baltic zones). Most zones have cleared in 15-minute steps since 1 October 2025: there each hour's price in the average is the mean of the quarter-hour prices published for it, and the minimum and maximum are single quarter-hour prices. Negative-hour counts use one hourly price per hour: the mean of its four quarter-hour prices, or the published hourly price for an hour without all four. Each day-ahead price page states how many prices its figures are computed from. A month is published only once at least 95 % of its hours carry a day-ahead price.

How do I cite a statistic?

Cite the permalink: "Vantage Energies, <statistic title>, https://vantage-energies.com/stats/<slug>". Every permalink pins one zone and one closed calendar month and states how its figure is computed. If that definition changes, the page says when and what it counted before, so a citation made today can still be checked later.

Beyond the statistics

The daily market news and briefings explain the moves behind these numbers and need a free Vantage Insights account. The figures themselves come from the same pipeline that serves the Vantage Insights charts, where the interactive analysis lives: 39 bidding zones, generation mix, capture rates and flows.