Day-ahead electricity prices in Great Britain

Great Britain clears its day-ahead electricity price each day at 12:00 CET via the Single Day-Ahead Coupling (SDAC) pan-European auction. The Great Britain bidding zone (GB, EIC 10YGB----------A) is the canonical price reference. Prices are reported in EUR/MWh at hourly resolution. Full archive: 2015-01-01 to present.

Latest market data

Day-ahead clearing for the most recent settled delivery day, in the SDAC market timezone (Europe/Berlin).

Baseload, yesterday
EUR/MWh
Peak hour, yesterday
EUR/MWh
Trough hour, yesterday
EUR/MWh
Last 30-day average
EUR/MWh

Last 30 days

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About this market

Day-ahead electricity prices in the Great Britain bidding zone are cleared once per day at 12:00 CET on the EPEX/Nord Pool/OMIE-operated SDAC pan-European auction. The clearing price represents the marginal cost of supplying one additional MWh in each hour of the next delivery day.

Bidding zone
Great Britain (GB)
EIC code
10YGB----------A
Timezone
Europe/London
Market cluster
British Isles
Active since
2015-01-01
Resolution
Hourly (PT60M); reported in EUR/MWh
Data source
ENTSO-E Transparency Platform

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