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Germany Electricity Price Now & Cheapest Hours (Day-Ahead, SMARD)

Wholesale day-ahead electricity price for Germany (DE-LU): current hour, average, the cheapest and most expensive upcoming hours and negative-price hours. Ideal for scheduling EV charging, heat pumps or batteries.

Call it (no API key)

GET https://api.agentdatahub.de/api/v1/call/energy-de-electricity-price?hours=24&compact=1

Full metadata: without compact=1 · Markdown: format=llm · Only some fields: add &fields=a,b.c · MCP: tool call_api with {"apiId":"energy-de-electricity-price"}

Parameters

Example response (live, compact)

{
  "apiId": "energy-de-electricity-price",
  "data_freshness": "cached",
  "data": {
    "market": "Day-ahead, bidding zone DE-LU",
    "unit": "EUR/MWh (ct/kWh = EUR/MWh / 10, wholesale, excl. grid fees and taxes)",
    "current_hour_utc": "2026-10-28T10:00:00.000Z",
    "current_price_eur_mwh": 207.58,
    "current_price_ct_kwh": 20.76,
    "window_hours": 13,
    "window_average_eur_mwh": 259.77,
    "cheapest_hours": [
      {
        "hour_utc": "2026-10-28T12:00:00.000Z",
        "eur_mwh": 189.91
      },
      {
        "hour_utc": "2026-10-28T13:00:00.000Z",
        "eur_mwh": 190.74
      },
      {
        "hour_utc": "2026-10-28T11:00:00.000Z",
        "eur_mwh": 195.86
      }
    ],
    "most_expensive_hours": [
      {
        "hour_utc": "2026-10-28T17:00:00.000Z",
        "eur_mwh": 343.09
      },
      {
        "hour_utc": "2026-10-28T18:00:00.000Z",
        "eur_mwh": 333.48
      },
      {
        "hour_utc": "2026-10-28T16:00:00.000Z",
        "eur_mwh": 325.07
      }
    ],
    "negative_price_hours": [],
    "published_until_utc": "2026-10-28T22:00:00.000Z",
    "hourly": [
      {
        "hour_utc": "2026-10-28T10:00:00.000Z",
        "eur_mwh": 207.58
      },
      {
        "hour_utc": "2026-10-28T11:00:00.000Z",
        "eur_mwh": 195.86
      },
      {
        "hour_utc": "2026-10-28T12:00:00.000Z",
        "eur_mwh": 189.91
      },
      {
        "hour_utc": "2026-10-28T13:00:00.000Z",
        "eur_mwh": 190.74
      },
      {
        "hour_utc": "2026-10-28T14:00:00.000Z",
        "eur_mwh": 226.17
      },
      {
        "hour_utc": "2026-10-28T15:00:00.000Z",
        "eur_mwh": 289.49
      },
      {
        "hour_utc": "2026-10-28T16:00:00.000Z",
        "eur_mwh": 325.07
      },
      {
        "hour_utc": "2026-10-28T17:00:00.000Z",
        "eur_mwh": 343.09
      },
      {
        "hour_utc": "2026-10-28T18:00:00.000Z",
        "eur_mwh": 333.48
      },
      {
        "hour_utc": "2026-10-28T19:00:00.000Z",
        "eur_mwh": 304
      },
      {
        "hour_utc": "2026-10-28T20:00:00.000Z",
        "eur_mwh": 279.17
      },
      {
        "hour_utc": "2026-10-28T21:00:00.000Z",
        "eur_mwh": 258.28
      },
      {
        "hour_utc": "2026-10-28T22:00:00.000Z",
        "eur_mwh": 234.2
      }
    ]
  },
  "source": "SMARD.de (Bundesnetzagentur) Strommarktdaten",
  "license": "SMARD.de Bundesnetzagentur CC-BY 4.0 Open Data"
}

Recorded history available: /api/v1/history/energy-de-electricity-price?hours=24

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