Has electricity decoupled from gas prices in Germany? (has-electricity-decoupled-yet.strommarktberatung.de)

The article explains how Germany’s electricity prices could become “decoupled” from gas by using renewables to push gas-fired plants off the market margin. It compares actual day-ahead electricity prices with a “gas-implied” electricity price calculated from TTF gas and EU ETS CO₂ costs, and flags decoupling when electricity trades more than 20% below that implied level. It notes limits from volume-weighted pricing and use of calendar-year front-month approximations for gas and CO₂.

April 07, 2026 14:20 Source: Hacker News