Monthly market report
France FR — March 2026
Day-ahead auction, 2,976 settlement periods, computed from the same data the API serves.
Average price
64.07 €/MWh
+18.16 vs previous month
Negative prices
38.8 hours
155 settlement periods below 0
Avg daily spread
155.81 €/MWh
the arbitrage opportunity, day by day
Volatility (σ)
50.94 €/MWh
Extremes
- Cheapest period
- -4 €/MWh Mar 22, 10:45 UTC
- Priciest period
- 291.1 €/MWh Mar 4, 07:00 UTC
Top spike days
- 2026-03-04max 291.1 €/MWh
- 2026-03-23max 240 €/MWh
- 2026-03-09max 232.58 €/MWh
Work with this data
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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.