News on European electricity markets
Week 5/2025
(26/01/2026 –01/02/2026)
| NEWS |
January 26, 2026
Gas drove European electricity market prices in the fourth week of January, while wind energy pushed them down in Iberia
In the fourth week of January, prices in most major European electricity markets increased compared to the previous week, with daily values above €100/MWh in most sessions. Higher gas prices, whose futures rose above €40/MWh, levels not seen since June 2025, together with lower wind energy production and higher demand in some markets, drove this increase. By contrast, higher wind energy production in the Iberian Peninsula put downward pressure on prices and allowed the MIBEL market to register its lowest daily price since May 2025.
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January 19, 2026
Gas and CO2 prices rose in the third week of January, putting upward pressure on European electricity market prices
In the third week of January, prices in the main European electricity markets registered an upward trend and most of them exceeded €100/MWh as a weekly average, although in many cases they were lower than those of the previous week. On January 17, the Iberian market registered its highest daily price since February 2025. During the week, TTF gas futures reached their highest settlement price since June, CO2 futures reached their highest settlement price since at least late 2023 and Brent futures reached their highest settlement price since early October. Electricity demand increased in most markets, while renewable energy production declined.
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| SOCIAL MEDIA |
January 28, 2026
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| WEBINARS |
- Evolution and prospects of European energy markets
- Insights from recent BESS transactions in Spain
- Key valuation drivers for standalone BESS projects in Spain
- Oriol Saltó i Bauzà, Associate Partner at AleaGreen
- Tomás García, Senior Director, Energy & Infrastructure Advisory at JLL
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- Evolution of European energy markets and prospects from 2026 onwards
- Prospects for energy storage and hybridisation
- Electricity demand: Data Centers and industry electrification
- Current state of regulation on PPA and renewable energy
- Virtual PPA and FPA (Flexibility Purchase Agreements)
- Oriol Saltó i Bauzà, Associate Partner at AleaGreen
- Oscar Barrero Gil, Partner responsible for Energy Sector at PwC Spain
- Alberto Martín, Energy Sector Consulting Partner at PwC Spain
- Roxana Fernández, Rabuñal Energy Consulting Senior Manager at PwC Spain
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These are the latest workshops held:
- Short term forecasting for agents that operate in the spot and futures markets. Request recording >>
- Mid-term forecasting with the stochasticity distributions for agents operating in the spot and futures markets. Request recording >>
- Alea Energy DataBase (AleaApp) for the compilation, visualisation and analysis of data related to the energy markets. Request recording >>
| HYBRID SYSTEMS OF RENEWABLE ENERGY AND BATTERIES |
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| MARKETS FORECASTING REPORTS |
At AleaSoft Energy Forecasting, long term forecasting reports are carried out for all European energy markets. In addition, new complementary services associated with these long term reports are offered.
Mid term European electricity markets prices forecasting reports are also available, which provide a vision of the prospects for the coming months and years, taking into account the most up to date scenarios for the evolution of the economy.
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| REPORTS FOR THE ENERGY SECTOR |
At AleaSoft Energy Forecasting, studies and reports on the European energy markets are carried out to satisfy the needs of the companies in the sector or other indirectly related companies. Some examples of these reports are:
- Long-term analysis of the electricity sector in the European markets
- Optimisation strategies for hybrid systems of renewable energy and energy storage
- Impact of the 7% tax on the market prices
- Financing and PPA
- Renewable energy auctions
- CO2 prices
- Analysis of the emission factor transferred to the market at the long term
- Price captured by photovoltaic, solar thermal, wind and hydroelectric energy
- Valuation of the wind and solar resource of a facility
- Influence of anticipated nuclear power plants shutdowns in the electricity sector
- International interconnections
- Analysis of price cannibalisation and hourly price profiles in the future
- Future of the green hydrogen in the energy sector
- Self-consumption
- Analysis of future scenarios in the sector and simulations
- Repercussions of the NECP in the electricity market
- Monographs on the main European electricity markets
- Cogeneration
- Biomass
- National, regional electricity consumption or client portfolio
- Generation optimisation
- Fuels: consumption, prices and futures
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| ALEA ENERGY DATABASE (ALEAAPP) |
At AleaSoft Energy Forecasting, the Alea Energy DataBase (AleaApp) was developed, an online platform which compiles the data from the energy markets and the macroeconomic data from the main European markets, helping and facilitating the digitalisation of the companies. In this tool it is possible to visualise and analyse the data through comparative graphs of variables, calculation of the moving average, changes in the temporality of the series, among others.
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| ENERGY MARKETS OBSERVATORIES |
The energy markets observatories are available on the AleaSoft Energy Forecasting website, which allow analysing the evolution of the main European electricity markets in recent weeks. This tool includes hourly, daily and weekly graphs in which the information is updated daily.