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shortage.life
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$ shortage commodity get ELE.EU
> spot: €104/MWh
> stress_index: 0.63 WATCH
> updated 14:31 UTC

// readout · live

BRENT     $72.13/b 
TTF       €44.25/MWh 
OPEC_ORB  n/a
SPR_US    331.2 Mb 
FAO_FFPI  130.8 
auto-refresh 60slatency 312msbuild 0.3.0commit f3a2c81UTC 00:00:00
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BRENT$72.13● 0.0%TTF€44.25● 0.0%HH$3.25● 0.0%SPR_US331.2 Mb17.0dEU_GAS47.7%18c avgFAO_FFPI130.8▼0.2%WHT$6.00/bu● 0.0%BRENT$72.13● 0.0%TTF€44.25● 0.0%HH$3.25● 0.0%SPR_US331.2 Mb17.0dEU_GAS47.7%18c avgFAO_FFPI130.8▼0.2%WHT$6.00/bu● 0.0%
~/commodities/electricity-eu·category: energycite · /api/v1/commodities/ELE.EU

EU Baseload Power / ELE.EU

energy€/MWhupdated: 14:31 UTC
WATCH
SPOT · €/MWh€104/MWh
Δ24H▲2.10%
Δ7D▼1.60%
Δ30D▲5.80%
STRESS · v3.20.63

[ 00 ]  $_SERIES · ELE.EU · spot trend

ELE.EU · €/MWhlast 104
READ MODE// long-form zoneEDITORIAL · commodity analysisdesk: Markets·last revision 14:31 UTC
Commodity analysis · ELE.EU · v3.2

EU Baseload Power, and what the reading means.

European baseload electricity, the calendar-front contract. Driven by gas, carbon, wind and the nuclear fleet.

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What is EU Baseload Power?

EU Baseload Power (ELE.EU) is a energy commodity tracked by shortage.life with a live spot of €104/MWh and a v3.2 stress index of 0.63. Quoted in €/MWh, the price is sourced from primary institutional feeds and refreshed on the cadence documented at /methodology.

European baseload electricity, the calendar-front contract. Driven by gas, carbon, wind and the nuclear fleet. At the latest reading, EU Baseload Power prints a spot of €104/MWh — a move of ▲2.10% over the past twenty-four hours and ▲5.80% across the trailing thirty days.

The v3.2 stress index places ELE.EU at 0.63 — a watch reading on a composite that blends price momentum, inventory cover, supplier concentration and geopolitical exposure. The metric is recomputed on every ingestion cycle, and the weekly delta is the line worth tracking rather than the absolute level.

For operators, the question is not the spot itself but the buffer behind it. A tightening reading on EU Baseload Power compounds with any incident on a shared transit route or producer, and the cascade is rarely linear. The scenarios below carry ELE.EU as an explicit input — each one is wargamed and reviewed against this commodity's exposure profile.

Frequently asked

What is the current EU Baseload Power price?
The current EU Baseload Power spot price is €104/MWh, refreshed in real time on shortage.life from primary institutional sources. The shortage.life v3.2 stress index reading is 0.63 — see /methodology for how the composite is computed and how the components are weighted.
How does EU Baseload Power get its stress score?
Every commodity in our 70-item table gets a 0-1 composite stress index blending: (i) price momentum vs trailing average, (ii) inventory cover where available, (iii) supplier concentration via HHI on top-five exporters, (iv) geopolitical-event density tagged to the commodity, and (v) substitution flexibility. Weights are versioned at /methodology v3.2.
Where can I get EU Baseload Power data via API?
All shortage.life data is published under CC-BY-4.0 with mandatory attribution. The REST endpoint is https://api.shortage.life/v1/commodities/electricity-eu returning JSON. An MCP server is available at mcp.shortage.life for AI agents. The current dataset reading is included as schema.org Dataset metadata in the page head.

[ 01 ]  $_SCENARIOS · with ELE.EU exposure

No active scenario currently carries EU Baseload Power as an explicit input.

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