2025-07-08
While everyone is anxiously awaiting expert conclusions on the Iberian Peninsula blackout of April 28th, 2025, "the first blackout of the renewable era" as it has been rightly observed, France experienced on June 5th, 2025, another completely special event of the power system. Despite being a normal working day, the day-ahead market recorded electricity prices in France equal to zero or slightly negative for a full row of 17 consecutive hours, marking an unprecedented record for the duration of this phenomenon, which signals a production surplus.