State of European Power · June 2018

State of European Power — June 2018

Published 2018-07-02 · every figure recomputed live from the Voltcast production database (last: 2026-07-13T23:50Z) · reproduce any number via the API

0

negative price-hours across 35 zones in June 2018

50.08

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

0

zones that cleared below zero at least once

June 2018 closed with 0 negative price-hours across the 35 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 FR (average 42.29 €/MWh); the priciest was IT-SICI (64.09 €/MWh) — a 22 €/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 DK2: from 4.34 to 171.84 €/MWh (167.5 €/MWh of spread — the raw material for every battery business case). The single deepest print of the month was 0.05 €/MWh in DK1 on 2018-06-17.

Every zone, one table

ZoneAvg €/MWhMinMaxNegative hours
AT 42.67 9.26 69.17 0
BE 49.93 9.71 97.04 0
CH 43.15 10.17 66.84 0
CZ 44.02 9.72 68.01 0
DK1 44.91 0.05 144.33 0
DK2 48.7 4.34 171.84 0
EE 47.81 4.34 81.54 0
ES 58.45 41.58 66.26 0
FI 47.18 4.34 81.54 0
FR 42.29 7.44 65.65 0
GR 60.68 27 69.77 0
HR 51.75 13.33 95.53 0
HU 51.26 18.06 100 0
IT-CNOR 57.38 24.42 84.82 0
IT-CSUD 59.58 24.42 84.82 0
IT-NORD 55.35 24.42 84.82 0
IT-SARD 58.28 10 107.84 0
IT-SICI 64.09 24.42 118 0
IT-SUD 59.39 24.42 84.82 0
LT 51.06 4.34 94.08 0
LV 50.92 4.34 94.08 0
NL 51.36 15.87 86.18 0
NO1 44.61 30.85 51.1 0
NO2 44.61 30.85 51.1 0
NO3 45.21 36.77 52.89 0
NO4 45.17 36.82 52.22 0
NO5 44.54 30.85 49.97 0
PT 58.47 41.98 66.26 0
RS 51.07 22.06 77.66 0
SE1 44.22 4.34 59.63 0
SE2 44.22 4.34 59.63 0
SE3 44.22 4.34 59.63 0
SE4 46.62 4.34 83.05 0
SI 50.68 13.33 84.82 0
SK 48.78 9.72 100 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-2018-06".