Emanuel Boeminghaus wrote that the German wholesale price for electricity rose from 13 to more than 300 euros per megawatt-hour within a few days and reached over 500 euros during certain evening hours. Wind turbines were expected to deliver less than seven gigawatts, thus providing less than half of the previous annual average, he explained. Germany's gas storage was 61.65 percent full on Tuesday, while Italy had reached around 90 percent. At the same time, expensive gas-fired power plants had to compensate for the missing electricity production from wind and solar. In the first five months of 2026, there had already been 242 hours with negative electricity prices, Boeminghaus wrote, referring to the Berliner Zeitung and Bloomberg. According to him, the price fluctuations demonstrated the structural challenges of the energy transition and increased cost pressure on the economy and consumers during ongoing periods of low renewable energy output. https://t.co/3ZVJt3jIFV #Energiewende #Strompreise #Deutschland (translated)








