Data sources for calculating European industrial electricity prices
Abstract
Summary This dataset contains average hourlywholesale day-ahead electricity prices for European countries. Note that these are the prices generators receive for selling electricity on the spot market. They are not the same as the prices paid by electricity consumers, which can also include taxes, levies, network charges, subsidies, and supplier profits. They also do not account for hedging. For an explanation of how spot prices are formed, see here. Methodology Hourly data is sourced from ENTSO-e, EMR (UK), SEMOpx (Ireland). Missing values are interpolated from nearby values. This data is then aggregated to produce average daily and monthly values per country, weighted by load. License This data (European Wholesale Electricity Price Data) was made available by Ember under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License under the following link: https://ember-energy.org/data/european-wholesale-electricity-price-data. It is being uploaded here for easier programmatic access and consistency.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Integrated Energy Systems Optimization
Electric Power System Optimization
Smart Grid Energy Management
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
- Publication date
- 10 February 2026
- Language
- EN
- Document type
- Dataset