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Same in France, electricity prices are capped so hard EDF had to be renationalised due to their massive losses to maintain the cap.

THIS.

The compensation adds 243.57eur/MWh to the final price for Spain.

but note that 380 EUR is still much much cheaper than other countries

What I understood is that Spain capped gas prices, thus reducing electricity prices. But yes, it's not real.

In Croatian electricity prices have only gone up 15% this year because of government intervention. The actual costs are something like 10x.

This is what every country should do. Basically putin is extorting europe through its marginal pricing.

BTW spain's prices are more "real" in the sense that they better reflect the cost of generation. It's the EU market's prices that are fake.