Monthly market report
France FR — February 2026
Day-ahead auction, 2,688 settlement periods, computed from the same data the API serves.
Average price
45.91 €/MWh
-54.79 vs previous month
Negative prices
32.3 hours
129 settlement periods below 0
Avg daily spread
104.3 €/MWh
the arbitrage opportunity, day by day
Volatility (σ)
40 €/MWh
Extremes
- Cheapest period
- -0.09 €/MWh Feb 22, 09:45 UTC
- Priciest period
- 172.49 €/MWh Feb 9, 08:00 UTC
Top spike days
- 2026-02-09max 172.49 €/MWh
- 2026-02-02max 154.13 €/MWh
- 2026-02-01max 145.14 €/MWh
Work with this data
- → Full 15-minute history via API (2015 onwards)
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Data source: ENTSO-E Transparency Platform (transparency.entsoe.eu). Data source: SMARD.de, Bundesnetzagentur | CC BY 4.0. Derived statistics are Voltcast own-IP output.