Germany’s electricity system, right now
What Germany is generating, using and importing, read from SMARD every quarter hour, with the cables drawn inside it. SMARD publishes no battery series, so the batteries here are the register’s count and nothing more.
Live · SMARD, the Bundesnetzagentur’s open data, read this quarter hour
Where the power is coming from, and where it is going
Reading the flows.
Reading the system.
The flow as a table
The batteries
SMARD publishes no battery series. Its realised generation has a series for each kind of plant and the only storage among them is pumped storage; its “grid load including storage” counts pumped storage alone. The Marktstammdatenregister names 4,337 MW of batteries in 542 units as operating, which is the figure above; what they are doing this quarter hour is not published anywhere open. Every one of them has a page, from the register.
The last 24 hours
Reading the day.
Generation by kind, stacked, with the cables’ net import as the pale band at the bottom and SMARD’s grid load drawn over it, every quarter hour. Beneath it, on the same clock, the cables’ net: above the line Germany is importing, below it exporting. There is no battery strip, because SMARD publishes no battery series.
The load line runs above the stack all day, and the gap is worth knowing about. SMARD’s generation by kind is the net output reported to ENTSO-E, estimated where the data is incomplete and for small plants, and it comes to several gigawatts less than SMARD’s own grid load, which the transmission operators work out from the whole of the generation they measure. The difference is generation the fuel breakdown does not see. Pumped storage’s charging is left out of the load by SMARD’s definition and out of the stack here; the caption under the flow says what it was taking in.
The cables
Reading the cables.
Measured flow on each border this quarter hour, from SMARD’s physical flows. Into Germany to the right, out of Germany to the left, in megawatts. The generation and load above are Germany’s own, SMARD’s DE region; Luxembourg shares Germany’s bidding zone but is its own country on the borders, so its link is among the cables.
SMARD publishes no system frequency, so none is shown. Germany runs in the continental European synchronous area at 50 Hz with its neighbours.
The residual load, what is left for the plants that can be told what to do
Reading the residual load.
Reading.
Generation by kind from SMARD’s realised generation, region DE, filters 1223 lignite, 4069 hard coal, 4071 natural gas, 1227 other conventional, 4066 biomass, 1226 hydro, 4070 pumped storage, 1228 other renewable, 4068 photovoltaics, 1225 wind offshore and 4067 wind onshore; nuclear (1224) ends in January 2024 and is not read. Grid load 410, residual load 4359 and pumped storage consumption 4387 from SMARD’s realised consumption. The cables from SMARD’s physical flows, one filter each way per neighbour (Denmark 4736 and 4880, France 4737 and 4881, Luxembourg 4738 and 4882, the Netherlands 4739 and 4883, Austria 4740 and 4884, Poland 4741 and 4885, Sweden 4742 and 4886, Switzerland 4743 and 4887, Czechia 4744 and 4888, Norway 4988 and 4990, Belgium 4992 and 4994) and the net 4963; SMARD gives exports as positive and imports as negative, and this page gives every cable as power into Germany. Every value is a quarter hour’s megawatt hours times four. SMARD stamps a quarter hour at its start and publishes it 30 to 60 minutes after it ends, and this page reads it every five minutes. Its series are shown as published, revisions and gaps included: a step of several gigawatts in the load line from one quarter hour to the next is SMARD’s own. Source: Bundesnetzagentur | SMARD.de, CC BY 4.0. SMARD publishes no battery series and no frequency. Nothing on this page is modelled. The register’s battery total is the Marktstammdatenregister’s, read weekly.