SMARD Electricity Market Data

SMARD Electricity Market Data

SMARD (Bundesnetzagentur, the German federal network regulator) publishes German and neighbouring-market electricity generation by source, consumption, cross-border flows and wholesale prices as downloads and chart-data JSON.

Coverage

German (and neighbouring) electricity generation by source, consumption, cross-border flows and wholesale prices. SMARD's user guide says the platform "presents key electricity market data for Germany and in part also for Europe in nearly real time", and that "All data on SMARD are updated on the basis of new findings." Category resolutions range from quarter hour to year depending on the data category; the cited hourly chart-data index (filter 410, Germany) begins in late December 2014.

Verdict

Keyless chart-data JSON (smard.de/app/chart_data) and downloads for SMARD's German and neighbouring-market electricity generation, consumption, cross-border flow and wholesale-price data. Licensed CC-BY-4.0 with a warning: the data-use page says: "is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence." but separately says: "We are currently conducting a thorough examination of legal licensing issues relating to wholesale prices as part of the ongoing HEDWIG determination proceedings." Attribution: the page says: "Data from the website www.smard.de should be attributed to \"Bundesnetzagentur | SMARD.de\"." Rate limits: Not stated. Signal Lab links only.