State of European Power · June 2024

State of European Power — June 2024

Published 2024-07-02 · every figure recomputed live from the Voltcast production database (last: 2026-08-24T12:55Z) · reproduce any number via the API

1,249

negative price-hours across 47 zones in June 2024

222.62

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

31

zones that cleared below zero at least once

June 2024 closed with 1,249 negative price-hours across the 47 European bidding zones with full coverage this month — 31 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 SE1 (average 21.34 €/MWh); the priciest was UA (4991.11 €/MWh) — a 4970 €/MWh gap between two markets inside one coupled European system, which is the whole story of constrained interconnection in one number.

FI logged the most negative hours (79), and the widest intra-month price range belonged to UA: from 80 to 9000 €/MWh (8920 €/MWh of spread — the raw material for every battery business case). The single deepest print of the month was -134.37 €/MWh in DE-LU on 2024-06-15.

Every zone, one table

ZoneAvg €/MWhMinMaxNegative hours
AL 108.41 2.6 4000 0
AT 68.2 -77.17 195.18 44
BE 60.92 -80.02 167.56 69
BG 97.95 -10.08 421.93 10
CH 48.14 -62.63 117.28 54
CZ 76.2 -80.4 274.34 57
DE-LU 72.88 -82.93 220.07 49
DK1 63.76 -37.13 209.32 57
DK2 66.8 -37.13 235.52 44
EE 91.64 -6.55 372.81 16
ES 56.26 -2 175.55 48
FI 36.13 -8.25 299.62 79
FR 37.78 -80.02 156.98 69
GR 98.91 0.04 324.95 0
HR 96.77 -69.34 502.06 42
HU 91.74 -83.29 502.06 52
IE-SEM 107.72 22 180 0
IT-CALA 105.82 9.65 190 0
IT-CNOR 102.52 9.65 166.98 0
IT-CSUD 105.91 9.65 190 0
IT-NORD 101.36 9.65 166.98 0
IT-SARD 104.64 0 190 0
IT-SICI 106.36 9.65 190 0
IT-SUD 105.91 9.65 190 0
LT 91.64 -6.55 372.81 16
LV 91.64 -6.55 372.81 16
ME 96.19 2.97 260.01 0
MK 92.5 3.29 278.58 0
NL 68.06 -81 203.34 67
NO1 33.58 -37.13 134.97 38
NO2 41.95 -37.13 196.83 38
NO3 23.23 -0.02 111.57 4
NO4 22.15 -0.02 46.22 4
NO5 34.19 -5 111.57 6
PL 105.53 -32.04 359.4 19
PT 58.29 -2 175.55 41
RO 97.81 -10.08 421.93 16
RS 98.04 0 394.52 0
SE1 21.34 -37.13 57.31 56
SE2 21.53 -37.13 57.31 35
SE3 24.19 -37.13 134.97 56
SE4 55.46 -37.13 225.77 42
SI 92.75 -83.2 437.33 40
SK 85.98 -77.28 325.2 65
TR 2095.01 14.04 2899.99 0
UA 4991.11 80 9000 0
XK 108.39 2.6 4000 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-2024-06".

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