State of European Power · October 2016

State of European Power — October 2016

Published 2016-11-02 · 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 October 2016

42.2

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

0

zones that cleared below zero at least once

October 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 28.1 €/MWh); the priciest was BE (57.19 €/MWh) — a 29 €/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 BE: from 21.49 to 299 €/MWh (277.51 €/MWh of spread — the raw material for every battery business case). The single deepest print of the month was -5.60 €/MWh in AT on 2016-10-30.

Every zone, one table

ZoneAvg €/MWhMinMaxNegative hours
AT 36.89 17.33 77.97 0
BE 57.19 21.49 299 0
CH 55.91 23.08 91.95 0
CZ 43.43 19.62 99 0
DK1 33.23 12.3 75 0
DK2 36.68 12.3 79.97 0
EE 37.57 22.87 79.97 0
ES 52.85 30 69.88 0
FI 37.57 22.87 79.97 0
FR 55.17 20.87 123.08 0
GR 43.17 0 69 0
HU 45.6 23.25 95.43 0
IT-CNOR 51.04 27.86 109.21 0
IT-CSUD 47.04 27.86 93.5 0
IT-NORD 56.28 30.59 109.21 0
IT-SARD 47.04 27.86 93.5 0
IT-SICI 50.23 10.15 92.67 0
IT-SUD 46.61 27.86 92.67 0
LT 38.51 22.87 79.97 0
LV 38.51 22.87 79.97 0
NL 38.01 18 81.93 0
NO1 32.86 22.87 70.16 0
NO2 30.8 22.87 40.52 0
NO3 36.23 22.87 75 0
NO4 28.1 22.87 50.47 0
NO5 30.9 22.87 40.52 0
PL 40.01 16.36 283.81 0
PT 52.8 30 69.88 0
SE1 36.21 22.87 79.97 0
SE2 36.21 22.87 79.97 0
SE3 36.21 22.87 79.97 0
SE4 36.66 22.87 79.97 0
SI 45.82 23.43 83.97 0
SK 43.48 19.62 99 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-2016-10".