July 2026
France · Belgium · DE-LU · Netherlands
The French electricity market during this 30-day period (721 hours) exhibited an unusually elevated mean price of €95.95/MWh with extreme intraday volatility (standard deviation €63.14/MWh), driven by a stark solar-driven duck curve that collapsed midday prices to as low as €18.52/MWh (hour 11) while evening peaks exceeded €163/MWh (hours 19-20). Remarkably, off-peak hours averaged €120.90/MWh — 61% above the peak-hour average of €74.83/MWh — a complete inversion of typical price profiles explained by solar saturation during daytime and steep thermal ramp requirements after sunset. France maintained its position as a dominant net exporter, dispatching over 5.9 TWh across all borders with the FR→IT interconnector running at 98.2% NTC utilisation, underpinned by a robust nuclear fleet averag