# Netzhandwerker Spot Electricity Price API

> Netzhandwerker Spot Electricity Price API is a paid API for AI agents from energy.netzhandwerker.de, paid per call via x402, $0.001/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Returns live spot electricity market prices for a specified region and time window, enabling arbitrage, trading signals, and cost optimization decisions.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://energy.netzhandwerker.de/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/netzhandwerker-spot-electricity-price-api-46894004
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_2cRkmk3glOZSZJkN52q26

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 netzhandwerker-spot-electricity-price-api-46894004 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: What's the current spot electricity price for Germany (DE-LU bidding zone) right now, and is it a good time to charge my battery storage based on today's intraday prices?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need real-time or near-real-time electricity spot market prices for energy trading, battery charge/discharge scheduling, EV smart charging, or cost optimization. It is purpose-built for autonomous energy agents needing sub-cent-cost programmatic access to live power market data, especially in European markets. Prefer this over general energy APIs when you need trading signals or arbitrage windows alongside raw price data.

## Known failure modes

- Unsupported or invalid market zone returns a 400 or empty result
- Data feed delay causing stale prices if upstream market data is temporarily unavailable
- Out-of-range time window returning no data or partial results
- Rate limiting or payment failure returning 402 or 429 status
- Market closure periods (weekends, holidays) may return limited or flat pricing data

## How this service works

One x402 call returns the action, best time window, expected EUR value, confidence and expiry for German and European electricity decisions. USDC on Base, no API key or account.

## Output

Returns current spot electricity price(s) for the requested market zone, including price value in EUR/MWh, timestamp, bidding zone identifier, and optionally a trading signal or arbitrage indicator indicating whether current prices are favorable relative to the daily range.

## 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"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "source": "EPEX DE/AT (aWATTar)",
  "timestamp": "2026-07-13T22:51:12.102Z",
  "valid_until": "2026-07-13T23:00:00.000Z",
  "current_price_ct_kwh": "13.96",
  "current_price_eur_mwh": 139.64
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/netzhandwerker-spot-electricity-price-api-46894004/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from energy.netzhandwerker.de](https://www.zero.xyz/host/energy.netzhandwerker.de/llms.txt)