A field guide to European power markets
When — and how much — the price of electricity moves in Europe.
Open data on Germany and its neighbours, pre-computed into views you can actually read. Everything answers one of five questions. Start with whichever you came for.
Electricity has no single price — it has a price every hour. This is how it swings between cheap and expensive, day to day and year to year.
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Behind every price is a physical mix of fuels. This is what generates Europe's power hour to hour — and how clean, or dirty, each hour really is.
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One country, one price — until the grid can't carry the power across it. Four countries, four answers to the same congestion problem, on the map.
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A renewable grid's hardest hours — the windless, sunless spells it must plan for, the batteries that ride the gap, and the day the lights actually went out.
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The wholesale price is only the start. This is the economic and consumer half — what flexibility is worth, and how a megawatt-hour becomes your monthly bill.
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Millions of cars and the first electric trucks are becoming the grid's newest, most flexible load. This is where they plug in, what it costs to charge, and how much of the promise is actually built.
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