DE-LU · battery revenue index
What a battery earns in Germany-Luxembourg
The daily BESS revenue index for DE-LU: perfect-foresight day-ahead arbitrage per MW — the transparent, reproducible ceiling — for standard 1h, 2h and 4h assets, methodology-versioned (BESS-v2) and never restated. Real projects earn less; the explorer haircuts it with your exact efficiency, cycles, availability and degradation — and shows what trading on our forecast (instead of a crystal ball) actually captures.
1h system · last 30 days
€5,357
per MW · avg €179/day
best day: €715 (2021-10-07)
weakest month: €515 (2019-07)
2h system · last 30 days
€10,334
per MW · avg €344/day
best day: €1,269 (2026-05-01)
weakest month: €969 (2019-07)
4h system · last 30 days
€17,921
per MW · avg €597/day
best day: €2,024 (2026-05-01)
weakest month: €1,683 (2019-07)
Daily revenue, 2h system · last 90 days · €/MW
Warm bars = strong days, cool = weak — both stay on the record. Peak in window: €1,269/MW.
How to read these numbers
The index is the arbitrage ceiling: a battery that knew each day's prices in advance, charging the cheapest hours and discharging the most expensive at 90% round-trip efficiency, one cycle per day. It's deliberately simple — simple is auditable, and auditable is the point. Your project's number is lower: forecast error (see the explorer's Volt foresight capture rate), availability, degradation strategy, grid fees. The ceiling's job is to be the stable benchmark those haircuts apply to — comparable across every zone and every year back to 2015, through the 2021–22 crisis the newer indices' histories don't reach.
Where DE-LU has the data, the API also returns the day's IDA1-arbitrage figure and the FCR/aFRR capacity alternatives — shown side by side, never summed, because the same megawatt can't do both at once. Full method, including what v2 does not model: methodology.
Cite freely with attribution: "Voltcast Battery Revenue Index" + link. Data: ENTSO-E / SMARD (CC BY 4.0) day-ahead auction results; reserve prices: regelleistung.net.