Webinar: Negative electricity prices: causes, effects and implications for market design

During this webinar, we will discuss what the causes of negative electricity prices are, what might be done about them and whether they do imply that the market design of electricity markets needs to be changed.

Illustration: iStock, falling electricity prices

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About the webinar

During the past decade, very low to negative electricity prices have become a new normal in Europe, contrasting with very high prices in periods of pick demand and lower generation from renewables. On the background of the energy transition and deeper electrification, it is expected that negative prices will become more common in the short term, raising a series of challenges for producers and wholesale traders, but also some new opportunities for large-scale consumers, demand response programmes and flexibility providers.


Speaker

Presentation by Prof. Michael Pollitt, Energy Policy Research Group, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge

Portrait picture of Professor Michael Pollitt

Comment by industry representative

Senior Policy Advisor Andrej Stancik, Energy traders Europe

Senior Policy Advisor Andrej Stancik, Energy traders Europe

Moderator

Prof. Catherine Banet, Head of the Department for Energy and Resources Law, University of Oslo


Digital resources from the webinar

Download the slides from the webinar here


Tags: : #energy, #energyeconomics, #EUlaw, #marketdesign, #negativeprices, #electricity
Published Jan. 5, 2026 3:20 PM - Last modified Oct. 12, 2026 2:11 PM