German Electricity Prices & Generation Mix (SMARD)

Get German day-ahead electricity prices, the generation mix by source (solar, wind, coal, gas, biomass…), grid load and forecasts as clean JSON, CSV or Excel — straight from the official Bundesnetzagentur SMARD data.

Ask for today, tomorrow, the last 7 days, or any custom period back to 2015, in 15-minute, hourly, daily, weekly, monthly or yearly steps. No API key, no scraping, no login.

What can I use it for?

• ⚡ Cheapest hours tomorrow – plan EV charging, heat pumps, batteries or industrial loads around day-ahead prices (published around 13:00 German time).
• 📊 Energy reporting – monthly solar/wind share, coal and gas generation, load curves for reports and dashboards.
• 🔁 Dynamic tariffs – feed hourly prices into dynamic tariff calculations or home automation.
• 🌍 Cross-border comparison – Germany/Luxembourg next to France, Netherlands, Austria, Poland, Denmark, Switzerland and more.
• 🤖 AI agents – call it as a tool via the Apify MCP server: "What are the three cheapest hours for electricity in Germany tomorrow?"

Data you get

Group	Series
Prices (EUR/MWh)	Germany/Luxembourg, Austria, Belgium, Czechia, Denmark 1 & 2, France, Hungary, Italy North, Netherlands, Norway 2, Poland, Slovenia, Switzerland, average of DE/LU neighbours
Generation (MWh)	Solar, wind onshore, wind offshore, biomass, hydro, other renewables, lignite, hard coal, natural gas, nuclear, pumped storage, other conventional
Consumption (MWh)	Total grid load, residual load, pumped-storage consumption
Forecasts (MWh)	Wind onshore/offshore, wind + solar, other, total generation

Regions: Germany (DE), DE-LU, DE-AT-LU, Austria, Luxembourg, and the four German transmission grid areas (50Hertz, Amprion, TenneT, TransnetBW).

How to use

1. Choose a preset (e.g. Market overview) or pick individual series.
2. Choose a time period – Tomorrow, Last 30 days, or Custom dates.
3. Choose a resolution (hourly is the default).
4. Run. Download the results as JSON, CSV, Excel or via the API.

Example input

{
  "preset": "prices",
  "period": "tomorrow",
  "resolution": "hour"
}

Example output (wide format)

{
  "timestamp": "2026-10-06T12:00:00.000Z",
  "localTime": "2026-10-06T14:00:00+02:00",
  "region": "DE",
  "resolution": "hour",
  "priceDeLu": 87.43,
  "consumptionTotal": 58234.5,
  "residualLoad": 31022.75,
  "genSolar": 17410.25,
  "genWindOnshore": 8301.5,
  "genWindOffshore": 1500.25
}

Choose long format if you want one row per time step and series (with label and unit) – ideal for databases and charting tools.

A summary (average, minimum, maximum with timestamps, and totals) is saved in the key-value store under OUTPUT – perfect for "cheapest hour" questions.

Notes

• Times are given in UTC (timestamp) and German local time (localTime). Day boundaries follow German time, including the 23- and 25-hour days when clocks change.
• Values that are not yet published are left out, so recent hours or tomorrow's prices may be missing before publication.
• Not every series exists for every region and resolution; unavailable ones are skipped and listed in the summary.

Pricing

You pay only for the rows you receive – no monthly fee.

Source and license

Data: Bundesnetzagentur | SMARD.de, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Please keep this attribution when you publish the data. This tool is independent and not affiliated with or endorsed by the Bundesnetzagentur.