Battery Storage (BESS) Arbitrage Revenue Calculator - Europe
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$500.00 / 1,000 analysis completeds
Battery Storage (BESS) Arbitrage Revenue Calculator - Europe
Estimate how much a battery could earn from day-ahead price arbitrage in any major European bidding zone. Returns daily revenue, annualised revenue per MW, cycles and simple payback.
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Battery Storage (BESS) Arbitrage Revenue Calculator — Europe
Estimate what a battery energy storage system could earn from day-ahead price arbitrage in European bidding zones, using historical day-ahead prices.
What it does
For each day in the chosen period it solves a linear program with perfect foresight: the battery starts and ends the day empty, respects its power (MW) and energy (MWh) ratings, round-trip efficiency, a daily cycle cap, and an optional degradation cost per MWh discharged.
Supported bidding zones
DE-LU, AT, FR, NL, BE, PL, CZ, CH, IT-North, DK1, DK2, SE4, NO2, HU, SI. Hourly and 15-minute resolution are both handled (SDAC moved to 15-minute products on 2025-10-01).
Example input
For this input the 2025 result is about EUR 77,000 per MW per year from day-ahead arbitrage alone, about 363 equivalent full cycles, and a simple payback of 7.4 years.
Pricing
Pay per event: you are charged once per completed analysis, whatever the period length. Platform usage is included.
Output
- Dataset: one row per day with revenue, MWh charged and discharged, and average charge and discharge prices.
- Key-value store
SUMMARY: total and annualised revenue, revenue per MW, equivalent full cycles, and simple payback if you give a capex per kWh.
Limits
- Perfect foresight on day-ahead prices only, so results are an upper bound for this revenue stream. Ancillary services, intraday trading, grid fees and taxes are not included.
- Not investment advice.
Price data: Energy-Charts by Fraunhofer ISE, sourced from Bundesnetzagentur | SMARD.de, licensed CC BY 4.0. Results are derived calculations, not the original data.
