EUROPE POWER-Spot prices higher for early next week on low wind

* Monday prices up but week-ahead outlook bearish

* France adds nuclear capacity

* Curve tracks lower fuel, carbon

FRANKFURT, July 22 (Reuters) - European spot electricity prices for early next week nudged higher in Friday trading as low wind output in Germany outweighed falling demand in the holiday season.

German baseload power for Monday delivery gained 1 euro over the price paid for Friday to 32.5 euros ($35.81) per megawatt-hour (MWh), while the equivalent French contract gained 30 cents to 36 euros/MWh.

Consumption in Germany and France is to fall by 2.5 gigawatts (GW) on Monday compared with the levels recorded on Friday, while wind output will total only 1.8 GW in Germany on Monday, half the Thursday level, Thomson Reuters (Dusseldorf: TOC.DU - news) data showed.

Traders said that further ahead next week, sustained high solar and hydroelectric output would offset a slight reduction in thermal availability forecast by the EEX bourse for Germany and Austria, weighing down prices.

Higher French nuclear availability was also bearish, they added. This has risen to 66.3 percent of the total from 64.3 percent on Thursday and 62.9 percent on Wednesday.

Along the forward power curve, the German benchmark year-ahead position lost 15 cents and the equivalent French contract was unchanged.

German baseload Cal '17 traded at 27.55 euros/MWh and the French contract remained at 33.7.

Crude futures were on track for weekly losses as investors reassessed U.S (Other OTC: UBGXF - news) . data on oil stocks and excesses in oil products in Europe and Asia.

European coal prices for 2017 shed 0.4 percent to $58.4 a tonne.

Front-year EU carbon allowances were 0.2 percent down at 4.65 euros a tonne.

In eastern European power, the Czech year-ahead position was 20 cents lower at 28.2 euros, while the day three position was untraded.

A talking point in the market was news on Thursday that Swedish state-owned utility Vattenfall took 30 billion crowns ($3.5 billion) in impairment charges in the second quarter, mostly on German lignite assets it is selling.

($1 = 0.9077 euros) (Reporting by Vera Eckert; Editing by Dale Hudson)