# Europe Power Prices - Day-Ahead Wholesale Electricity Prices

> Europe Power Prices - Day-Ahead Wholesale Electricity Prices is a paid API for AI agents from api.vextorium.com, paid per call via x402, $0.003/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-11).

Returns wholesale day-ahead electricity prices (hourly EUR/MWh, avg, min, max, cheapest/most-expensive hours) for a European country or zone for today or a specified date.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://api.vextorium.com/v1/europe-power-prices?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.003/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-11
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/europe-power-prices-day-ahead-wholesale-electricity-prices-4b7a011f
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_nKdcyExVoZee59XXxYVg9

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 europe-power-prices-day-ahead-wholesale-electricity-prices-4b7a011f -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: What are the day-ahead wholesale electricity prices in Spain for today — give me the hourly breakdown in EUR/MWh plus the cheapest and most expensive hours?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need structured day-ahead wholesale electricity price data for European markets, especially when you want hourly granularity, cheapest/most-expensive hour rankings, or cross-country comparisons in a single call. Prefer this over scraping energy exchange websites when you need programmatic, machine-readable EUR/MWh data for automation, scheduling, or reporting.

## Known failure modes

- Unsupported country/zone code returns an error or null data
- Future dates beyond the day-ahead window may return no data
- Missing required 'country' field causes a validation error
- Data source (Energy-Charts) temporarily unavailable leads to null response
- Invalid date format (not YYYY-MM-DD) causes a parse error

## How this service works

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## Output

A JSON object containing the zone/country, date, unit (EUR/MWh), average/min/max prices for the day, a per-hour array of UTC timestamps with prices, and ranked lists of the cheapest and most expensive hours.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "day": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "YYYY-MM-DD"
  },
  "country": {
   "type": "string"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "avg": 168.6,
  "day": "2026-10-03",
  "max": 220.56,
  "min": 76.45,
  "unit": "EUR / MWh",
  "zone": "ES",
  "source": "Energy-Charts (Fraunhofer ISE). Licencia: The data provided herein is for private and internal use only. The utilization of any data, whether in its raw or derived form, for external or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited. Should you require licensing for market-related data, please direct y…",
  "per_hour": [
   {
    "eur_mwh": 187.5,
    "time_utc": "2026-10-02T22:00Z"
   },
   {
    "eur_mwh": 174.55,
    "time_utc": "2026-10-02T23:00Z"
   }
  ],
  "cheapest_hours": [
   {
    "eur_mwh": 76.45,
    "time_utc": "2026-10-03T11:00Z"
   },
   {
    "eur_mwh": 85.93,
    "time_utc": "2026-10-03T12:00Z"
   }
  ],
  "most_expensive_hours": [
   {
    "eur_mwh": 220.56,
    "time_utc": "2026-10-03T18:00Z"
   },
   {
    "eur_mwh": 210.18,
    "time_utc": "2026-10-03T19:00Z"
   }
  ]
 }
}
```

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