Monthly market report
France FR — April 2026
Day-ahead auction, 2,880 settlement periods, computed from the same data the API serves.
Average price
39.56 €/MWh
-24.51 vs previous month
Negative prices
136.8 hours
547 settlement periods below 0
Avg daily spread
154.02 €/MWh
the arbitrage opportunity, day by day
Volatility (σ)
60.3 €/MWh
Extremes
- Cheapest period
- -478.8 €/MWh Apr 26, 12:00 UTC
- Priciest period
- 239.12 €/MWh Apr 1, 06:00 UTC
Top spike days
- 2026-04-01max 239.12 €/MWh
- 2026-04-14max 197.59 €/MWh
- 2026-04-02max 196.93 €/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.