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Weekly disclosure statistics, methodology documentation, and analysis of European energy market transparency.

6 Jul 2026

8 Traders, 3 Years, 0 Charges: Denmark's REMIT Case Ends

Denmark's first criminal REMIT case — eight Aarhus power traders arrested in April 2023 — has been dropped with no charges. The company was never named.

6 Jul 2026

Weekly dispatch

French Nuclear Outages Drive 72.8 GW European Supply Peak

Concurrent unavailable capacity across Europe peaked at 72,853 MW on 29 June, with France and Germany combining for nearly 66% of the shortfall. French nuclear constraints dominated the generation mix, led by major reductions at Golfech 2 and Paluel 3.

1 Jul 2026

Case study

FR–IT-Nord Spread Hit €104/MWh — Europe's Widest Price Gap

The day-ahead spread between France and Italy's northern bidding zone averaged −€59.77/MWh over 16 trading days and peaked at −€104.17/MWh on 2 June — the widest gap between any two of the nine European zones in the data set, driven by cheap French nuclear output against import-constrained Italian pricing.

29 Jun 2026

Case study

Heat and the grid: forced power-plant outages spike once it passes 30°C

Across more than 26,000 outage onsets in 10 European markets this spring, the naive link between temperature and outages turns out to be a maintenance-scheduling mirage. Isolate the forced outages, though, and a real signal appears: they stay near zero until daily-max temperature clears about 30°C, then jump roughly thirteenfold. During the late-June 2026 heatwave, unplanned outages went from a handful a day to 265 in one day.

29 Jun 2026

Weekly dispatch

French nuclear concentration pushes European concurrent outages to 75.7 GW

European unavailable capacity peaked at 75.7 GW on 24 June. France captured 31.4% of this concurrent snapshot, driven by concentrated nuclear baseload outages.

23 Jun 2026

Case study

France Carries 7× the Peer Median in Offline Capacity — But Sweden Owns the Density Crown

France's outage book totals an estimated 35 GW of event-MW — 7× the 11-country median and larger than Spain and Germany combined — driven by nuclear refuelling season. Normalized for fleet size, however, Sweden leads at 266 MW offline per installed GW, 2.1× the median, concentrated in just three nuclear units.

23 Jun 2026

Case study

Europe's Gas Storage Is Filling at Half the Pace Needed to Hit the 90% Winter Target

European gas storage reached 38.18% by June 21, filling at ~0.20 percentage points per day — roughly half the ~0.39 pp/day pace required to reach the EU's 90% November 1 target. At the current rate, storage would enter winter near 65%, well short of the regulatory floor.

23 Jun 2026

Case study

What Is a UMM? A Primer on Urgent Market Messages Under REMIT

Urgent Market Messages (UMMs) are the primary transparency mechanism for inside information in European energy markets — covering everything from a 3,000 MW interconnector outage published 26 days in advance to a nuclear trip disclosed within one minute. Across 17 countries and 28 tracked operators, publication timing ranges from −26 days (planned, published early) to +24 days (late disclosure), and one interconnector event has accumulated 15,823 revisions.

23 Jun 2026

Case study

France Leads Europe's Outage Book at 12.3 GW — But Sweden Is Carrying the Heaviest Load per GW Installed

France has ~12,300 MW of generation capacity flagged offline — 5.9× the peer median and more than the next four countries combined. Normalize by installed fleet size, however, and Sweden (93 MW/GW) takes the top spot, carrying 5.5× the median density. The reshuffled ranking reveals two very different supply-squeeze stories: one of sheer scale, one of concentrated vulnerability.

23 Jun 2026

Case study

France Tops Europe's Outage Book at 19.9 GW — But Sweden Leads on Density

French nuclear units account for 19.9 GW of offline capacity — 2.6× the five-country median — while Spain's hydro fleet adds another 13.9 GW. Normalised for installed capacity, however, Sweden's 173.7 MW/GW makes it the densest outage concentration of the five countries reviewed.

22 Jun 2026

Weekly dispatch

France (FR) led a 75,308 MW European outage peak

Peak concurrent unavailable generation reached 75,308 MW during 15 June - 21 June 2026. France (FR) carried 26.8% of that peak; 1522 outage records overlapped the week and 21,591 UMMs were published.

17 Jun 2026

Case study

Spain's 88,270-Minute Latency 'Leader' Is a 5-Record Artefact — The Real Tail Is Elsewhere

A single Spanish publisher tops the 30-day UMM latency league with an 88,270-minute median lag and 100% of records >120 min late — but it rests on just 5 backfilled records from an IIP operator EIC. The genuine disclosure tail belongs to the high-volume generators: Iberdrola and Endesa each carry P90 lags of 378 and 225 minutes across 67-87 records, with 12-14% published more than two hours late.

16 Jun 2026

Case study

France Owns 31 of 35 Nuclear Units Offline Across Europe — 88.6% of the Book

Of 35 distinct nuclear units with outages disclosed across Europe in the past 14 days, 31 sit in France — 88.6% of the entire book, more than the next three countries combined. The largest single unavailability is a 1,500 MW French reactor (CHOOZ B 1) flagged offline through 23 June.