SMARD
German electricity market data platform operated under Bundesnetzagentur licence.
SMARD is the Bundesnetzagentur's day-ahead price, generation-mix and load platform, published under a CC BY 4.0 licence and republished by third parties such as Fraunhofer ISE's energy-charts.info.
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SMARD, short for Strommarktdaten, is the day-ahead and generation-mix data platform operated by the Bundesnetzagentur, Germany's federal network regulator. It publishes hourly day-ahead prices, generation output by fuel source and system load, drawing on figures collected from grid operators and power exchanges.
The platform is released under a CC BY 4.0 licence, which lets third parties redistribute the same underlying figures through their own interfaces. Fraunhofer ISE's energy-charts.info is one such redistributor, meaning SMARD sits upstream of most public German power-price tools rather than competing with them directly.
This desk treats SMARD-derived figures, power prices and generation mix, as regulator-sourced, distinct from aggregator-sourced quotes such as TTF gas and EUA carbon prices used elsewhere in its coverage. That distinction is why German and French day-ahead figures in this coverage trace to the regulator rather than to a commercial price vendor.
