# EU Power Dispatch API – German EPEX Spot Price Lookup

> EU Power Dispatch API – German EPEX Spot Price Lookup is a paid API for AI agents from energy.halowerk.com, paid per call via x402, $0.001/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Returns the current German EPEX spot electricity price for immediate trading and dispatch decisions.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://energy.halowerk.com/price/spot
- Price: $0.001/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/eu-power-dispatch-api-german-epex-spot-price-lookup-3954d42e
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_XpwIVVta453cTwqhv6NNO

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-power-dispatch-api-german-epex-spot-price-lookup-3954d42e -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: What's the current German EPEX spot electricity price right now? I need it to decide whether to dispatch power or charge the battery.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need the real-time German EPEX spot electricity price for immediate automated decisions — particularly for battery dispatch, DePIN compute scheduling, or power trading agents operating in the German electricity market. It is well-suited for high-frequency polling at very low cost ($0.001 per call). Prefer it over manual data scraping or delayed data feeds when sub-minute latency matters for profitability or dispatch optimization.

## Known failure modes

- Payment not received or x402 payment header missing — returns 402 Payment Required
- Market data temporarily unavailable from ENTSO-E/SMARD upstream — may return 503 or stale price
- Malformed POST body — returns 400 Bad Request
- Rate limit exceeded — returns 429 Too Many Requests
- Network timeout if upstream data source is slow to respond

## How this service works

Trading and dispatch agents buy this endpoint to obtain the current German EPEX spot price for immediate decisions.

## Output

Returns the current German EPEX spot market electricity price, likely including the price value in EUR/MWh and a timestamp, sourced from licensed ENTSO-E and SMARD data. The response enables immediate trading, dispatch, or load-scheduling decisions.

## 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",
    "bodyType",
    "body"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "body": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {},
     "additionalProperties": false
    },
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "POST",
      "PUT",
      "PATCH"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "bodyType": {
     "enum": [
      "json",
      "form-data",
      "text"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    }
   },
   "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-power-dispatch-api-german-epex-spot-price-lookup-3954d42e/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from energy.halowerk.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/energy.halowerk.com/llms.txt)