Captured Prices
Volume-weighted electricity prices by generation technology
A technology's captured price is the volume-weighted average of the day-ahead price
during the hours it generates. Renewables tend to capture lower prices than baseload because they
produce most when supply is abundant and prices are low — the cannibalization effect.
As renewable capacity grows, the gap between their captured price and the market average widens.
Captured prices — last 7 days click source name to show/hide
Daily volume-weighted average DA price per technology. Baseload (dashed) = simple daily mean.
Gaps indicate zero generation on that day (e.g. no net imports).
Captured prices — last 365 days click source name to show/hide
Seasonal patterns: solar captures well in winter (scarce supply) but poorly in summer (abundant supply, midday price collapse).
Wind captures less during prolonged high-wind periods when the entire fleet generates simultaneously.
The scatter plots below show each hour's generation (GW) against the day-ahead price.
Renewables cluster in the low-price zone — the
more they generate, the lower the price. Conventionals show the opposite: they ramp up when prices are high.
Denser clusters appear darker due to overlapping semi-transparent dots.
Generation vs price — last 30 days click source name to show/hide
Renewables: wind onshore, wind offshore, solar
Conventionals: gas, hard coal, brown coal, imports
Generation vs price — last 365 days click source name to show/hide
Renewables: wind onshore, wind offshore, solar
Conventionals: gas, hard coal, brown coal, imports
Prices: ENTSO-E Transparency Platform (DE-LU) · Generation: ENTSO-E (Bundesnetzagentur) ·
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