# Recovering wind output may help cool Europe’s heated gas market

> A wind shortfall pushed European electricity generation from gas to its highest level in three years. This helped drive a rally that lifted benchmark European gas prices more than 15% year-to-date.

- Date: 2025-02-13 · published 2025-02-13T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: weather · region Europe · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/26215-recovering-wind-output-may-help-cool-europe-s-heated-gas-market
- Commodities: [Natural Gas](https://feedsoft.ai/c/NATGAS.md), [Urea](https://feedsoft.ai/c/UREA.md)

## Why it matters

Higher European gas prices raise nitrogen fertilizer production costs and support urea prices, while also lifting energy costs across the feed and processing chain.

## Read by commodity

- UREA: bullish ▲
- NATGAS: bullish ▲

## Similar past events

| Commodity | Date | Event | 5-day % | 20-day % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| NATGAS | 2018-03-13 | [LNG markets and LNG cargoes \| European Gas Hub](https://feedsoft.ai/events/66183-lng-markets-and-lng-cargoes-european-gas-hub.md) | -5.2% | -2.2% |
| NATGAS | 2025-10-20 | [Cold Snap Ignites US Natural Gas Market, Reshaping Winter Outlook](https://feedsoft.ai/events/7792-cold-snap-ignites-us-natural-gas-market-reshaping-winter-outlook.md) | +15.3% | +41.4% |
| NATGAS | 2018-01-03 | [U.S. gas market faces long-awaited test as cold spurs demand](https://feedsoft.ai/events/4671-u-s-gas-market-faces-long-awaited-test-as-cold-spurs-demand.md) | -33.0% | -27.6% |
| NATGAS | 2020-10-06 | [US natgas highest since November as hurricane shuts output, cold forecasts - Markets - Business Recorder](https://feedsoft.ai/events/8350-us-natgas-highest-since-november-as-hurricane-shuts-output-cold-forecasts.md) | +25.7% | +42.2% |
| NATGAS | 2022-11-08 | [Winter could soon rear its ugly head, pushing prices up despite healthy storage - Rystad Energy’s North America Gas and LNG Market Note](https://feedsoft.ai/events/7581-winter-could-soon-rear-its-ugly-head-pushing-prices-up-despite-healthy-storage.md) | +7.4% | -11.6% |
| UREA | 2021-02-19 | [US Gulf urea values recover as gas diversions and production cutbacks bring producers to the market; activity elsewhere limited](https://feedsoft.ai/events/48941-us-gulf-urea-values-recover-as-gas-diversions-and-production-cutbacks-bring.md) | +1.5% | +11.7% |
| UREA | 2025-01-01 | [Gas price shock set to add to Europe's industrial pain](https://feedsoft.ai/events/27144-gas-price-shock-set-to-add-to-europe-s-industrial-pain.md) | +2.3% | +6.4% |
| UREA | 2026-01-22 | [Winter shock links gas markets worldwide as US freeze-offs meet global LNG competition \| Saxo](https://feedsoft.ai/events/6504-winter-shock-links-gas-markets-worldwide-as-us-freeze-offs-meet-global-lng.md) | +1.4% | +13.2% |

## Sources

- reuters.com: https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/recovering-wind-output-may-help-cool-europes-heated-gas-market-maguire-2025-02-13/

---
Data from Feedsoft AI (https://feedsoft.ai/). For information only; not investment advice.