# EU Day-Ahead Electricity Price API

> EU Day-Ahead Electricity Price API is a paid API for AI agents from x402-datashop-production.up.railway.app, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Returns wholesale day-ahead electricity prices in EUR/MWh for a given European bidding zone and optional time window, sourced from Fraunhofer ISE Energy-Charts

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://x402-datashop-production.up.railway.app/v1/eu/power-price
- Price: $0.005/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/eu-day-ahead-electricity-price-api-5a008758
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_DYmxZtmFgc6AJchV-2sdG

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability eu-day-ahead-electricity-price-api-5a008758
```

Example prompt: What are the day-ahead electricity prices for the DE-LU bidding zone today, July 13 2026? Show me the full 15-minute breakdown.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need official, authoritative day-ahead wholesale electricity prices for specific European bidding zones sourced from Fraunhofer ISE/Bundesnetzagentur. Prefer it over generic energy data scrapers when you need timestamped 15-minute granularity, CC BY 4.0 licensed data, or coverage across all 44 European bidding zones. It is particularly suited to energy cost forecasting, arbitrage analysis, smart charging optimization, and regulatory reporting workflows.

## Known failure modes

- Unknown or invalid bidding zone code returns an error (valid zones: DE-LU, FR, NL, ES, IT-NORTH, SE4, and ~38 others)
- If start/end dates are out of available historical range, an empty or error response is returned
- Malformed ISO 8601 dates return a validation error
- Payment not included or insufficient USDC results in HTTP 402 Payment Required
- Energy-Charts upstream API outage may result in 502/503 errors; 1h cache may serve stale data in such cases

## How this service works

Wholesale day-ahead electricity prices in EUR/MWh per European bidding zone, from the Energy-Charts API (Fraunhofer ISE; data CC BY 4.0 from Bundesnetzagentur/SMARD). Query: ?bzn=DE-LU|FR|NL|ES|IT-NORTH|SE4... (44 zones), optional ISO window &start=2026-07-12&end=2026-07-13. Returns timestamped price points (15-min or hourly slots, max 288). 1h cache.

## Output

An array of timestamped price points (up to 288 entries at 15-minute or hourly resolution) in EUR/MWh for the requested bidding zone and time window, covering one or more days of day-ahead market data.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET",
      "HEAD",
      "DELETE"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "bzn": {
       "type": "string",
       "default": "DE-LU",
       "description": "Bidding zone code, e.g. DE-LU, FR, NL, IT-NORTH"
      },
      "end": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "ISO 8601 window end (optional, with start)"
      },
      "start": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "ISO 8601 window start (optional, with end)"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/eu-day-ahead-electricity-price-api-5a008758/health.json
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