Monthly market report
Ireland (SEM) IE-SEM — August 2020
Day-ahead auction, 744 settlement periods, computed from the same data the API serves.
Average price
36.9 €/MWh
+6.82 vs previous month
Negative prices
18 hours
18 settlement periods below 0
Avg daily spread
33.98 €/MWh
the arbitrage opportunity, day by day
Volatility (σ)
14.29 €/MWh
Extremes
- Cheapest period
- -10 €/MWh Aug 20, 22:00 UTC
- Priciest period
- 105 €/MWh Aug 27, 16:00 UTC
Top spike days
- 2020-08-27max 105 €/MWh
- 2020-08-24max 92.06 €/MWh
- 2020-08-26max 83.52 €/MWh
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Data source: ENTSO-E Transparency Platform (transparency.entsoe.eu). Data source: SMARD.de, Bundesnetzagentur | CC BY 4.0. Derived statistics are Voltcast own-IP output.