Zone explainer · recomputed continuously

What drives electricity prices in Slovakia?

Data window: trailing 30 days (mix) and 2026 year-to-date (prices) · recomputed 2026-07-13T23:44Z

110.76

YTD avg €/MWh

229

negative hours YTD

-500 / 734.63

YTD min / max €/MWh

volt-4

serving forecast model

The generation mix (trailing 30 days)

Wind 0% Solar 3.9% Hydro 12.7% Nuclear 66.3% Fossil 10.4%

SK runs on a nuclear backbone (66.3% of recent generation). Baseload is cheap and steady, so the price action lives in the margins: demand swings (this market is highly temperature-sensitive), the availability of the reactor fleet, and how much wind/solar shows up. Outage seasons — planned or otherwise — are the risk events worth watching.

The zone has cleared negative 229 hours so far this year (live counters on the tracker), inside a year-to-date range of -500 to 734.63 €/MWh. Our serving model (volt-4) currently runs 14.8% less error than the naive baseline (backtest, 29 scored days) — verified daily on the public scorecard.

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Method. Mix shares from realized generation (ENTSO-E A75, trailing 30 days); price stats from hourly means of published day-ahead auction results (2026 YTD). Every figure recomputes continuously — this page is a query, not an essay with a shelf life. Cite as "Voltcast Research, voltcast.com".