INTERACTIVE: Platts Renewable Energy Price Explorer

(Latest update: March 10, 2026)

Wind power production in Europe's five biggest markets surged 50% year-on-year as a series of storms continued to lash Europe's Atlantic coast from Iberia to the British Isles, helping to ease capture prices, Platts pricing data showed.

Capture prices in Spain deflated amid oversupply from wind, hydro and at times solar, while wind capture prices across Northern Europe remained firm amid an extended cold spell across the wider region.

The capture rate for Spanish solar plunged to 29% with daily capture prices ranging from minus Eur2.81/MWh to Eur17.22/MWh, according to Platts assessments for S&P Global Energy. 

That is despite a 25% on-year drop for Spanish solar generation in February.

Elsewhere, German and British on- and offshore wind capture rates averaged from 91% to 98% with average volume-weighed capture prices around the Eur90/MWh for the combined 24 TWh generated.

More broadly across Europe, February wind power output averaged 85 GW, according to preliminary data by WindEurope and BMRS data for Great Britain, aggregated by Platts.

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The dial chart shows monthly wind, solar, nuclear, gas and coal-fired generation across Europe's five biggest power markets. Click a segment for more detail.