Live · DE-LU bidding zone

Germany electricity today: carbon and price, hour by hour

Carbon intensity and the day-ahead price of electricity in Germany, hour by hour for 48 hours, with the best four hours to run flexible compute. Refreshed every 10 minutes.

Carbon intensity, latest hour: 125 g CO2e/kWh
Day-ahead price, latest hour: 28.4 €/MWh
Renewable share of generation: 86 %

Snapshot of 24 Oct 2026, 00:59 CEST.

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About this market

Grid operator

50Hertz, Amprion, TenneT and TransnetBW in Germany; Creos in Luxembourg.

Bidding zone

Germany and Luxembourg have formed one bidding zone, DE-LU, since 1 October 2018, when the former DE-AT-LU zone was split.

Generation in 2025

Largest sources: wind 27.2%, coal 20.6%, solar 17.9% (gas 16.5%).

Data-centre rule

Under section 11 of the Energy Efficiency Act (EnEfG), data centres that started operating before 1 July 2026 must reach a PUE of 1.5 from 1 July 2027 and 1.3 from 1 July 2030; newer ones must reach 1.2. A bill to relax the first two limits to 1.6 and 1.4 is before the Bundestag.

Other markets

Or see all fifteen on one screen on the live European grid dashboard.

Notes

Carbon intensity is estimated from each market’s generation by fuel. Forward hours follow the renewables forecast.
Prices are day-ahead wholesale, not what a site pays.
“Delayed” marks a series that missed its last refresh.

Sources: ENTSO-E Transparency Platform, Bundesnetzagentur (SMARD), NESO Carbon Intensity API and European Central Bank (exchange rates); data: Energy-Charts.info, Fraunhofer ISE.