European electricity prices — April 2017
Monthly review: day-ahead average price by price area, price spikes and negative hours, and the change from the previous month. Prices are wholesale market prices, excluding tax.
The priciest area was Romania at 172.4 EUR/MWh, the cheapest Norway NO4 at 24.3 EUR/MWh.
Finland was the 16th cheapest of 39 price areas at 31.4 EUR/MWh.
The gap between the priciest and cheapest area was 148.1 EUR/MWh — a factor of 7.1.
Most negative prices in Austria: 15 hours.
Poland had 689 hours above 100 EUR/MWh.
Cheapest area
24.3 €/MWh
Norway NO4
Priciest area
172.4 €/MWh
Romania
Median price area
33.6 €/MWh
39 price areas
Finland's average
31.4 €/MWh
16th cheapest
April 2017 average price on the map
The month's average price in every price area (EUR/MWh, excluding VAT).
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