Electricity exchange price · Netherlands

Exchange price Netherlands now: – ct per kWh

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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.

History

 

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2026 so far

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What the exchange price in the Netherlands 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.
  • Why it differs from Germany.The power exchanges calculate Europe’s countries together. As long as the lines between two countries have room, their prices move together; when the lines are full, the prices split. Then what counts is how much wind, sun, hydro or nuclear power the country has right now.

Where the numbers come from

Exchange price
Wholesale price Netherlands, 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 from SMARD, as far back as SMARD has them (mean of all quarter hours of the day). Week and month per hour, the whole series per week. Averages and “before” from the daily averages; the period ends today.
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.

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