Oct 22, 2026 | Home Electrification, Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy, Smartgrids
France has run up roughly 800 hours of negative or zero wholesale electricity prices in 2026, an all-time high — and already more than the whole of 2025 with a quarter of the year still to run. The government’s answer, fleshed out this month, is the right one....
Aug 4, 2026 | Renewable Energy, Solar
A solar farm’s capture rate is the share of the average wholesale price it actually earns — and it falls as more solar gets built, because every panel generates in the same midday hours and floods the market it sells into. In spring 2026 Europe’s solar...
Aug 2, 2026 | Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy, Solar
Solar supplied 25% of EU electricity in June 2026 — 52 TWh, the largest single source, ahead of nuclear, gas, wind, hydro and coal. In the same year, European solar farms captured the lowest share of the wholesale price ever recorded: an average of 38% in spring, down...
