State of European Power · April 2016

State of European Power — April 2016

Published 2016-05-02 · every figure recomputed live from the Voltcast production database (last: 2026-07-13T23:47Z) · reproduce any number via the API

0

negative price-hours across 34 zones in April 2016

27.04

average day-ahead price, €/MWh, across covered zones

0

zones that cleared below zero at least once

April 2016 closed with 0 negative price-hours across the 34 European bidding zones with full coverage this month — 0 of them cleared below zero at least once. Negative prices are no longer an anomaly; they are a structural feature of a grid where solar and wind routinely outrun demand.

The cheapest market of the month was NO4 (average 20.84 €/MWh); the priciest was GR (38.98 €/MWh) — a 18 €/MWh gap between two markets inside one coupled European system, which is the whole story of constrained interconnection in one number.

AT logged the most negative hours (0), and the widest intra-month price range belonged to IT-SICI: from 2.01 to 94.07 €/MWh (92.06 €/MWh of spread — the raw material for every battery business case). The single deepest print of the month was -0.70 €/MWh in AT on 2016-04-17.

Every zone, one table

ZoneAvg €/MWhMinMaxNegative hours
AT 25.27 9.81 76.31 0
BE 25.43 0.01 62.09 0
CH 25.23 9.36 40.09 0
CZ 24.69 10.4 40.44 0
DK1 21.99 12.52 37.28 0
DK2 22.17 14.57 39.47 0
EE 29.73 14.93 51.5 0
ES 24.1 4 58 0
FI 27.25 14.93 51.5 0
FR 25.48 4.91 62.53 0
GR 38.98 11 65 0
HU 29.17 11.81 53.38 0
IT-CNOR 32.63 11 99.75 0
IT-CSUD 32.49 11 99.75 0
IT-NORD 30.86 17.33 62.53 0
IT-SARD 32.49 11 99.75 0
IT-SICI 36.73 2.01 94.07 0
IT-SUD 32.26 10 99.75 0
LT 33.04 14.93 95.08 0
LV 30.71 14.93 51.5 0
NL 25.32 9.5 45.92 0
NO1 21.89 15.24 37.08 0
NO2 21.89 15.24 37.08 0
NO3 22.38 18.15 37.28 0
NO4 20.84 18.15 27.04 0
NO5 21.9 15.52 37.08 0
PL 38.32 18.14 88.26 0
PT 23.48 4 58 0
SE1 22.06 14.93 37.28 0
SE2 22.06 14.93 37.28 0
SE3 22.07 14.93 37.28 0
SE4 22.17 14.93 39.47 0
SI 28.35 7.03 62.53 0
SK 25.86 10.4 53.36 0

Method & citation. Hourly means over all published day-ahead auction results per zone (native 15-minute periods averaged per hour); zones with under 20 reported days excluded. Sources: ENTSO-E Transparency Platform, SMARD (CC BY 4.0). Reproduce via GET /api/v1/prices/{zone}. Cite as "Voltcast Research, voltcast.com/research/state-of-european-power-2016-04".