FRANKFURT, Nov 27 (Reuters) - French spot power prices fell on Thursday on forecasts for rising temperatures and stronger wind generation supply, while Germany prices were untraded but bid lower.
LSEG's day-ahead analysis cited lower residual load in Germany overall, which means fewer requirements for thermal plants, but with some intraday changes.
Electricity demand on the day-ahead will likely fall by 1.8 gigawatts (GW) in Germany to 63.4 GW, and by 5.3 GW in France to 62.5 GW, LSEG data showed.
French day-ahead baseload power TRFRBD1 traded 7.7% down at 77.5 euros ($89.84) per megawatt hour (MWh) at 0910 GMT, LSEG data showed.
The German equivalent TRDEBD1 had not changed hands but was bid at 86 euros/MWh, having closed at 92.5 euros.
German wind power output is expected to gain 3.5 GW to reach 30.2 GW on Friday, and add 200 MW in France to hit 7.7 GW.
French nuclear generation availability was unchanged at 82% of total capacity.POWER/FR
Temperatures were predicted to rise by 2.8 degrees Celsius in Germany up to Friday, to 5.5 degrees, and to add 2.9 degrees in France day-on-day, to 8.2 degrees.
German year-ahead baseload power TRDEBYZ6 fell 1.0% to 86.6 euros/MWh.
French Cal '26 baseload TRFRBYZ6 was untraded after closing at 49.5 euros.
The European carbon market's benchmark 2025 contract CFI2Zc1 was 0.3% off at 81.41 euros a metric ton.
The German government aims to sign an agreement by early next year to buy a 25.1% stake in the local division of Dutch power grid operator TenneT, a letter seen by Reuters shows.
The EPEX SPOT bourse has launched the intraday continuous trading offer in the Baltic region, extending benefits of a market that has turned over 380 TWh of buy and sell contracts in the year-to-date across Europe.
This is to be followed by day-ahead trading next year.
($1 = 0.8627 euros)
(Reporting by Vera Eckert; Editing by Alexander Smith)
((vera.eckert@thomsonreuters.com; +49 30 2201 33654))
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