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TTF settles €46.44 inside tight weekly range

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TTF held €43.4 to 47.4/MWh across the week to 4 May, settling €46.44 on Monday. Month-to-date down 7.27%, year-on-year up 40.53%; the France-Germany power spread held at €55.75.

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Key takeaway

TTF held a €4 weekly range while the France-Germany May-26 power spread stayed at €55.75/MWh.

TTF front-month closed at €46.44/MWh on the Monday 4 May session, inside a weekly range of €43.4 to 47.4/MWh per ICE data 1. Month-to-date the contract is down 7.27%; year-on-year it is up 40.53%. The France May-26 power contract traded at €21.80/MWh versus Germany May-26 at €77.55/MWh; the €55.75 spread first flagged on 28 April held through 4 May with no compression.

A tight weekly range is what European desks expect when the supply book is settled. The settled read holds across two prior anchors: the €41.67/MWh six-week low on 17 April and the recovery after Iran's re-closure of Hormuz . The weekly range across 30 April to 4 May sits inside both of those reference points, and that compression is what makes the divergence with the storage-pace data sharp rather than incremental.

France's nuclear-led baseload prints at €21.80/MWh while Germany's gas-and-renewables mix prints at €77.55/MWh, and the €55.75 spread has held without compression for nearly a week. That persistence indicates the spread is structural rather than a one-session dislocation; it tracks the underlying generation mix and the gas-to-power transmission channel rather than near-term wind or temperature noise. The TTF range and the power spread together describe a market reading aggregate supply as resolved and the bilateral generation-mix gap as durable.

Deep Analysis

In plain English

France and Germany are connected by high-voltage electricity cables. France generates a lot of cheap nuclear power, but the cables between the two countries can only carry a limited amount. As a result, electricity in France is much cheaper than in Germany right now, France's May contract is around 21 euros per megawatt-hour, Germany's is 77 euros. The 55-euro gap has held steady all week. This gap matters because it shows how fragmented the European electricity market is: cheap power in one country cannot automatically offset expensive power in a neighbouring one, and German industry pays far more for electricity than French industry does.

What could happen next?
  • Consequence

    German gas-to-power generation bidding at EUR 70-80/MWh marginal cost into the balancing market sustains gas demand from power generation through May, reducing the volume available for storage injection and putting indirect upward pressure on TTF spot.

  • Opportunity

    If the Aurora forecast of spread compression by late May proves correct, German solar hours lengthening from May, gas-to-power demand falls and frees up TTF supply for storage injection, narrowing the pace gap from the power-generation side.

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Update #7 · Storage pace 0.21 vs 0.257; floor not yet met

Trading Economics / ICE· 4 May 2026
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