Electricity on the markets is already attacking the two-hundred-euro mark – SME.sk

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Last week, it sold for as much as 196 euros per megawatt-hour.

BRATISLAVA. Last week was marked by record electricity prices in the markets. According to data published by the Prague Stock Exchange PXE, in the middle of last week, the price of electricity with delivery to Slovakia for next year was selling for 196 euros per megawatt-hour.

This is a new record. However, electricity has failed to reach the two-hundred-euro mark. On Friday, the price of electricity was around 192 euros per megawatt-hour.

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At the beginning of this year, electricity was traded for 55 euros per megawatt-hour.

Several analysts agreed that the significant rise in market electricity prices is due to increasingly expensive emission allowances, German energy policy, as well as rising gas prices in the markets.