State of European Power · June 2016

State of European Power — June 2016

Published 2016-07-02 · 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 June 2016

34.05

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

0

zones that cleared below zero at least once

June 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 NO5 (average 23.89 €/MWh); the priciest was PL (49.63 €/MWh) — a 26 €/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 PL: from 25.85 to 261.01 €/MWh (235.16 €/MWh of spread — the raw material for every battery business case). The single deepest print of the month was 3.86 €/MWh in AT on 2016-06-26.

Every zone, one table

ZoneAvg €/MWhMinMaxNegative hours
AT 27.63 9.76 46.09 0
BE 30.7 5.54 61.64 0
CH 27.73 10.04 45.43 0
CZ 32.16 13.23 87 0
DK1 28.51 14.2 55.54 0
DK2 33.78 17.71 167.88 0
EE 36.23 17.71 167.88 0
ES 38.92 16 49.98 0
FI 35.42 17.71 167.88 0
FR 28.02 5.54 44 0
GR 41.33 22.12 63.01 0
HU 32.78 13.23 87 0
IT-CNOR 40.1 18.02 73.31 0
IT-CSUD 40.68 19.67 90 0
IT-NORD 32.63 13.03 63.9 0
IT-SARD 40.68 19.67 90 0
IT-SICI 41.82 19.67 90 0
IT-SUD 40.31 19.67 90 0
LT 40.54 18.79 167.88 0
LV 40.54 18.79 167.88 0
NL 32.6 12.78 67.01 0
NO1 24.08 17.71 28.39 0
NO2 24.08 17.71 28.39 0
NO3 30.75 17.9 95.18 0
NO4 24.78 17.9 27 0
NO5 23.89 17.71 28.39 0
PL 49.63 25.85 261.01 0
PT 38.31 18.77 48 0
SE1 33.72 17.71 167.88 0
SE2 33.72 17.71 167.88 0
SE3 33.74 17.71 167.88 0
SE4 33.76 17.71 167.88 0
SI 31.95 8.49 63.9 0
SK 32.27 13.23 87 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-2016-06".