Research via the Federal Network Agency: electricity market data from the SMARD portal

How often can Germany export electricity? When are coal-fired power plants irreplaceable? The Federal Network Agency has answers to these questions – in the SMARD portal.

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Research via the Federal Network Agency: electricity market data from the SMARD portal evaluation and accuracy consumption monitoring conclusion

The Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) not only monitors the telecommunications and railway networks, but also the electricity network. The authority provides data on this network in two websites, the market master data register and the “electricity market data” (SMARD) portal.

This article is about the “electricity market data” portal (SMARD for short). SMARD collects data, among other things, on consumption and generation in the German and European electricity market and can also display this as a diagram. Among other things, the data shows how much electricity is generated from which energy sources and how high consumption in Germany is in return.

Typical questions that can be answered based on this data: Were there enough sun and wind yesterday to cover the country’s electricity needs during the day? How much do coal-fired power plants still have to produce at night? How much solar power is generated in winter? And how much did the last nuclear power plants achieve, which were the subject of intense political debate?

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