Electricity exchange price · Germany

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Germany and its neighbours

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One bar per quarter hour, taller means pricier. Move your finger or mouse across, and its price shows at the top.

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More wind and sun, cheaper power.

2026 so far: the 30 days with the most and those with the least wind and sun, on average.

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– % of consumption from wind and sun

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– % of consumption from wind and sun

Right now – % of consumption comes from wind and sun.

2026 so far

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    quarter hours below zero, – hours in total

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    lowest price, –

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    highest price, –

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    on average, 2025: – ct

At home about – ct right now. With a dynamic tariff.

New customers on a fixed price pay 38.6 ct on average.

Average across suppliers, 2026 figures from the Bundesnetzagentur. Your price depends on your supplier and where you live; low-cost suppliers come in about 1.5 ct lower. A dynamic tariff needs a smart meter. How we calculate

What the exchange price is

  • It is set the day before.Every day at noon the power exchange sets the price of every quarter hour of the next day. SMARD usually publishes it from about 14:00. The number at the top changes exactly on the quarter hour, never in between.
  • It can fall below zero.When lots of wind and sun meet little demand, power trades at negative prices. Then the number at the top has a minus.
  • It is the same across Germany.Germany and Luxembourg are one price zone: one price per quarter hour, wherever you live.

Where the numbers come from

Exchange price
Wholesale price Germany/Luxembourg, day-ahead, per quarter hour. Bundesnetzagentur | SMARD.de, licence CC BY 4.0. Converted from €/MWh to ct per kWh (€10/MWh = 1 ct).
As of
Data from SMARD: –. Next prices: tomorrow from about 14:00. Ampena asks SMARD at most once a minute; this page only asks ampena.com.
History
Daily averages since October 2018 from SMARD (mean of all quarter hours of the day). Week and month per hour, since 2018 per week. Averages and “before” from the daily averages; the period ends today.
Wind and sun
Generation from onshore wind, offshore wind and solar in relation to electricity consumption (grid load), SMARD.de, CC BY 4.0. The comparison counts the days of the year up to yesterday.
A day
From 0:00 to 24:00 German time, usually 96 quarter hours. On 25 October it has 100 quarter hours, on 28 March 92.
Cheapest 3 hours
The three hours in a row with the lowest average, from now to the last known price. Your plan in Ampena follows your car, your battery and your departure.
Neighbours
Wholesale prices of the neighbouring zones, day-ahead per quarter hour; Switzerland runs its own auction, per hour. Bundesnetzagentur | SMARD.de, CC BY 4.0. Now: price of the current quarter hour, change against the same time yesterday. Tomorrow: average of all quarter hours, change against today’s average. The dashed line is the value compared with. Denmark has two price zones (West DK1, East DK2); for Norway we show the southern zone (NO2), linked to Germany by the NordLink sea cable. SMARD does not show all zones at the same time.
Market report
Written every day from fixed sentences, without AI, as soon as SMARD shows the German prices for tomorrow (usually from about 14:00); until then it compares today with yesterday. Average as above; cheapest 3 hours as above, but only within the day; most expensive hour: the 60 minutes in a row with the highest average. Differences come from the rounded values, so everything adds up. It names the neighbours once at least six are published.
At home about
Exchange price of the quarter hour + 3.7 ct for the supplier (margin, service fee, guarantees of origin) + 16.4 ct for grid fees, concession fee, electricity tax and levies, plus 19 % VAT, per kWh. The two fixed values are 2026 averages from the Bundesnetzagentur’s modelled dynamic electricity price (German), based on its monitoring with the Bundeskartellamt: derived from the monthly values and rounded to one decimal. With a month’s exchange price, weighted the way a household uses power (BDEW profile H25), the formula matches the Bundesnetzagentur’s 2026 figures to within about 0.2 ct. Fixed price: new customers on average, September 2026, also Bundesnetzagentur. Your own price differs: the margin depends on your supplier, grid fees and concession fee on where you live.
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