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Where does power flow — and why do prices split?

Geography of Price

One country, one price — until the grid can't carry the power across it. Four countries, four answers to the same congestion problem, on the map.

Divergence Chart

How far neighbouring zones' prices drift apart — and the cross-border flow that explains it.

DE↔FRthe headline price gap

Germany North–South Map view

Wind in the north, demand in the south, one price between them — so clean power gets curtailed.

~400Landkreise mapped

France Nuclear Map view

The centralised mirror: 57 reactors, who exports, who imports, and what it really costs.

~63 GWnuclear fleet, 18 sites

Nordic Price Zones Map view

The split Germany debates, already live — twelve zones, a cheap hydro north, a dear south.

12 zonesNordic bidding zones

UK Regional Map view

Britain's answer: keep one price, pay Scottish wind to switch off.

£1.6 bn/yrthermal constraint cost, annualised

Curtailment Chart

Clean power thrown away when the grid can't move it — the cost of the bottleneck, in MWh and €.

The euro figure is an estimate at a reference price, not a settled cost.

stormy daysspikes on neg-price hours

Locational Signal Chart

The internal north–south congestion made legible — and the single-zone debate, even-handed.

The split-zone effect is a cited range from published studies, not an assertion.

1 zoneDE-LU, debate annotated
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