The Netherlands registered more negative energy price hours in the first eight months of this year than in 2024. The Dutch research agency Stratergy says that the correlation between solar production and negative price hours “is becoming” increasingly stronger. “
The The Netherlands Registered 474 hours with negative electricity prices during the first eight months of 2025, according to figures from the Dutch consultancy Stratergy. The figure exceeds the number of negative price hours in the Netherlands in 2024, which reached 458.
Jan Willem Zwang, an analyst for Stratergy, said PV -Magazine In June alone, 127 negative prize hours, followed by 12 in July. “The main reason for this big difference is the lower amount of solar generation,” said Vwang. “The correlation with solar production is getting stronger and stronger.”
Temperature is another factor that influences the number of negative price hours, the analysis of vogue turned out. He laid the demand for cooling during higher temperatures, while the efficiency of both solar panels and fossil power plants is decreasing.
The average of the negative price hours registered until the end of August is on -€ 14.05 ( -$ 16.47)/MWH, compared to a full average of -€ 18.60/MWh in 2024.
This year’s figures have so far been a continuous trend on the Dutch energy market. In 2024 the number of negative price areas is surpassed The total recorded in 2023 mid -August.
Vwang said that the growing number of hours with negative prices shows the proper functioning of the market design and not only offers challenges, but also opportunities. “Parties that organize flexibility and can accurately predict can record a considerable value,” he explained.
When asked by PV -Magazine How the Netherlands can best deal with the rise in negative price hours, voggated suggested an increase in the flexibility of demand, leverage of batteries, electrolyzers and thermal storage to absorb surplus power, and the management of supply via coordinated shrinking and flexible power purchase agreements.
The trend observed in the Netherlands is also visible on other European energy markets. From August 24 this year, Germany had recorded 453 hours of negative day-ahead prices and the total surpassed in 2024.
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