{ "module": "electricity", "contract": 1, "generated": "2026-10-18T00:40:01Z", "site": "Baltic Basket", "kind": "price", "status": "ok", "geo_level": "bidding_zone", "cadence": "hourly", "data_date": "2026-10-18", "lag_days": 0, "lag_expected_days": 1, "module_updated": "2026-10-18T00:40:01Z", "coverage": { "LV": "ok", "LT": "ok", "EE": "ok" }, "countries": { "LV": { "coverage": "ok", "value": 27.15, "as_of": "2026-10-18", "label_key": "electricity.spot_now", "label": "Exchange price now", "unit": "EUR/MWh", "cents_kwh": 3.29, "sources": [ { "id": "elering", "name": "Elering live API (Nord Pool spot)", "url": "https://dashboard.elering.ee/assets/api-doc.html", "class": "A", "retrieved": "2026-10-18T00:40:01Z", "upstream_published": null, "licence": "not stated by the source" } ], "sources_evidence": "series_meta.by_country.LV.source_id" }, "LT": { "coverage": "ok", "value": 27.15, "as_of": "2026-10-18", "label_key": "electricity.spot_now", "label": "Exchange price now", "unit": "EUR/MWh", "cents_kwh": 3.29, "sources": [ { "id": "elering", "name": "Elering live API (Nord Pool spot)", "url": "https://dashboard.elering.ee/assets/api-doc.html", "class": "A", "retrieved": "2026-10-18T00:40:01Z", "upstream_published": null, "licence": "not stated by the source" } ], "sources_evidence": "series_meta.by_country.LT.source_id" }, "EE": { "coverage": "ok", "value": 27.15, "as_of": "2026-10-18", "label_key": "electricity.spot_now", "label": "Exchange price now", "unit": "EUR/MWh", "cents_kwh": 3.37, "sources": [ { "id": "elering", "name": "Elering live API (Nord Pool spot)", "url": "https://dashboard.elering.ee/assets/api-doc.html", "class": "A", "retrieved": "2026-10-18T00:40:01Z", "upstream_published": null, "licence": "not stated by the source" } ], "sources_evidence": "series_meta.by_country.EE.source_id" } }, "caveat_key": "electricity.caveat.exchange_price_not_bill", "caveat_en": "This is the exchange price, not your bill.", "method_url": "https://www.balticbasket.eu/method/electricity/", "sources": [ { "id": "elering", "name": "Elering live API (Nord Pool spot)", "url": "https://dashboard.elering.ee/assets/api-doc.html", "class": "A", "retrieved": "2026-10-18T00:40:01Z", "upstream_published": null, "licence": "not stated by the source" }, { "id": "energy_charts", "name": "energy-charts.info (Fraunhofer ISE) — flows and generation", "url": "https://api.energy-charts.info", "class": "A", "retrieved": "2026-10-18T00:40:01Z", "upstream_published": null, "licence": "CC BY 4.0 (public_power, cbpf); /price endpoint excluded: private and internal use only" }, { "id": "ee_elektrilevi", "name": "Elektrilevi network service price list, in force from 2026-06-01 (prices approved by Konkurentsiamet, decision 7-3/2026-028); also republishes the Estonian state charges and excise", "url": "https://public-docs.elektrilevi.ee/2/7/vorguteenuse_kehtiv_hinnakiri_71ed51b53d.pdf", "class": "B", "retrieved": null, "upstream_published": null, "licence": "not stated by the source" }, { "id": "ee_elering_balancing", "name": "Elering balancing capacity charge (tasakaalustamisvoimsuse tasu): 3.73 EUR/MWh for 2026, 2.97 EUR/MWh from 2027-01-01", "url": "https://elering.ee/tasakaalustamisvoimsuse-kulu", "class": "A", "retrieved": null, "upstream_published": null, "licence": "not stated by the source" }, { "id": "lv_sadales_tikls", "name": "AS Sadales tikls differentiated distribution tariffs, in force from 2024-01-01, set by the operator under SPRK 2022-11-28 Nr. 1/41 (tariff calculation methodology)", "url": "https://sadalestikls.lv/storage/app/media/uploaded-files/ST%20tarifu%20vertibas-01.01.2024.pdf", "class": "B", "retrieved": null, "upstream_published": null, "licence": "not stated by the source" }, { "id": "estat_nrg_pc_204", "name": "Eurostat electricity prices for household consumers (nrg_pc_204), EUR/kWh", "url": "https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/nrg_pc_204/default/table", "class": "A", "retrieved": "2026-10-17T12:56:02Z", "upstream_published": "2026-10-16T23:00:00+0200", "licence": "not stated by the source" }, { "id": "estat_nrg_pc_204_c", "name": "Eurostat electricity price components for household consumers (nrg_pc_204_c)", "url": "https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/nrg_pc_204_c/default/table", "class": "A", "retrieved": "2026-10-17T12:56:02Z", "upstream_published": "2026-10-16T23:00:00+0200", "licence": "not stated by the source" }, { "id": "eso_gt", "name": "ESO public (last-resort) supply price history by month, components A-D", "url": "https://www.eso.lt/namams/elektra/garantinis-tiekimas/garantinio-tiekimo-kaina-2026-metais/4849", "class": "A", "retrieved": "2026-10-17T17:10:01Z", "upstream_published": null, "licence": "not stated by the source" }, { "id": "estat_nrg_pc_204_h", "name": "Eurostat nrg_pc_204_h — Electricity prices for domestic consumers - bi-annual data (until 2007); band 4161150 (Households - Dc (annual consumption: 3 500 kWh of which night 1 300)), all taxes and levies included. A DISCONTINUED table: it prices a fixed standard consumer, not the consumption band the household layer prices, and it is never joined to it", "url": "https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/nrg_pc_204_h/default/table", "class": "A", "retrieved": "2026-09-27T09:56:01Z", "upstream_published": "2024-01-03T23:00:00+0100", "licence": "CC-BY-4.0 (European Commission reuse policy)" } ], "licence": "CC BY 4.0", "licence_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "attribution": "Baltic Basket", "licence_note": "This licence covers the Baltic Basket compilation. Each upstream source keeps its own terms; see sources[].licence.", "files": { "latest_json": "https://www.balticbasket.eu/data/electricity-latest.json", "history_csv": [ { "file": "https://www.balticbasket.eu/data/electricity-history.csv", "columns": [ { "name": "country", "desc": "ISO 3166-1 alpha-2" }, { "name": "date", "desc": "the date the figure describes (never the day we fetched it)" }, { "name": "period", "desc": "source's own period label where it has one (e.g. 2025-S2)" }, { "name": "value_eur_per_mwh_excl_tax", "desc": "the published value; the column name states unit and tax basis" }, { "name": "unit", "desc": "unit, empty for an index" }, { "name": "value_kind", "desc": "price" }, { "name": "includes_tax", "desc": "no (from series_meta.vat_included)" }, { "name": "aggregation", "desc": "mean_of_hourly_means" }, { "name": "point_basis", "desc": "calendar_month_mean" }, { "name": "coverage", "desc": "the module's own coverage flag for this country" }, { "name": "gap_before", "desc": "1 = a declared gap ends immediately before this row; no row is ever interpolated" }, { "name": "gap_note", "desc": "which gap, and why, when the source said why" }, { "name": "source_id", "desc": "the source that produced THIS row, as the fragment names it; look it up in sources[] of this module's latest.json. Empty where the fragment names no source for the row — never guessed from the module's roster" } ], "unit": "EUR/MWh", "includes_tax": "no", "tax_basis_evidence": "series_meta.vat_included", "aggregation": "mean_of_hourly_means", "point_basis": "calendar_month_mean", "sources": [ { "id": "elering", "name": "Elering live API (Nord Pool spot)", "url": "https://dashboard.elering.ee/assets/api-doc.html", "class": "A", "retrieved": "2026-10-18T00:40:01Z", "upstream_published": null, "licence": "not stated by the source" } ], "sources_evidence": "EE from series_meta.by_country.EE.source_id; LT from series_meta.by_country.LT.source_id; LV from series_meta.by_country.LV.source_id", "declared_gaps": [] } ] }, "unit": "EUR/MWh", "note_keys": [ { "key": "electricity.household.caveat.modelled", "params": {} }, { "key": "electricity.household.note.fixed_fees_curve", "params": { "low": 50, "high": 1000 } }, { "key": "electricity.household.note.vat_in_tax_component", "params": {} }, { "key": "electricity.household.note.regulator_headline_withheld", "params": {}, "country": "EE" }, { "key": "electricity.note.monthly_mean_of_hourly", "params": { "first": "2012-06", "last": "2026-10", "n": 173 } }, { "key": "electricity.note.local_market_day_dated", "params": { "day": "2026-10-18" } }, { "key": "electricity.compare.basis.monthly_so_far", "params": { "period": "2026-10-18", "prev": "2026-09", "year_ago": "2025-10" } }, { "key": "electricity.note.three_resolutions_dated", "params": { "days": 180, "res": 15, "first": "2012-06" } }, { "key": "electricity.note.extremes_resolution_mtu", "params": { "res": 15 } }, { "key": "electricity.note.zone_older_than_source", "params": { "cc": "EE", "zone": "2010-04-01", "source": "2013-06-03" } }, { "key": "electricity.one_liner.today", "params": { "day": "2026-10-18", "avg": 11.98, "res": 15, "low": 2.85, "low_at": "03:00", "high": 27.43, "high_at": "17:00" } }, { "key": "electricity.one_liner.window_today", "params": { "hours": 2, "start": "00:45", "avg": 3.33 } } ], "notes": [ "vat: per-country rates from basket_common.VAT (was a global 21% on every zone)", "times: all timestamps are UTC with an explicit Z suffix", "gen_mix age (h): lv=4.7, lt=1.9, ee=0.9", "tomorrow = cleared day-ahead auction result, not a forecast", "legacy: nrg_pc_204_h (discontinued after 2007-S2) published as its own block per country, never joined to the household series. It prices a FIXED standard consumer (3500 kWh a year, 1300 of them at night); the current DC band is a consumption RANGE of 2500-4999 kWh a year. Same unit, different measurement.", "series: 2012-06-30..2026-10-18, 173 monthly points. One point = the calendar-month mean of hourly day-ahead means (rows -> hour -> month, so the 15-minute era from 2025-10-01 does not outweigh the hourly one). Each point carries that month's lo/hi, so the August 2022 maximum (the 4000 EUR/MWh price cap) stays visible.", "hourly detail is published only for today and the cleared auction for tomorrow; the daily step covers the last 180 days; nothing between points is interpolated", "history: on 2026-09-04 spark_prices was backfilled from Elering's own API back to the first hour the source serves per zone — ee 2013-06-02T22:00:00Z, lt 2012-06-17T22:00:00Z, lv 2013-06-02T22:00:00Z. Estonia's bidding zone opened 2010-04-01, but the source publishes nothing for ee before 2013-06-03, so the ee series starts where the source starts. Every point is the same measurement, the zone's Nord Pool day-ahead clearing price in EUR/MWh; the price is euro-denominated in every year covered, so the euro adoption of Latvia (2014-01-01) and Lithuania (2015-01-01) is not a seam and no conversion was applied.", "coverage LV: the source is missing 45 whole delivery days and 84 days with under 23 hours between 2013-06-02 and 2016-12-30 (by weekday: Fri 121, Sun 5, Sat 2, Thu 1); 30 month(s) are therefore published with partial=true, hours and expected_hours, and analytics does not count them. Nothing is filled in.", "coverage LT: the source is missing 67 whole delivery days and 93 days with under 23 hours between 2012-06-17 and 2016-12-30 (by weekday: Fri 152, Sun 5, Sat 2, Thu 1); 39 month(s) are therefore published with partial=true, hours and expected_hours, and analytics does not count them. Nothing is filled in.", "coverage EE: the source is missing 45 whole delivery days and 84 days with under 23 hours between 2013-06-02 and 2016-12-30 (by weekday: Fri 121, Sun 5, Sat 2, Thu 1); 30 month(s) are therefore published with partial=true, hours and expected_hours, and analytics does not count them. Nothing is filled in.", "compare: vs_year_ago_pct and vs_prev_period_pct are LV calendar-month means (2026-10-18 vs 2026-09-30 and vs 2025-10-31), the same basis zones[].vs_year_ago_pct uses. They were computed against a single day (the 24 hours of one year earlier), whose own range that day was 76.84-299.12 EUR/MWh. vs_30d_pct keeps its own, named base (today against the mean of the previous 30 market days) and is no longer the same variable as vs_prev_period_pct.", "day: 'today' is the 2026-10-18 calendar day in Europe/Riga (2026-10-17T21:00:00Z..2026-10-18T21:00:00Z), not a UTC bucket; a UTC bucket published 22:45Z — 01:45 on the NEXT local day — as today's cheapest moment. Timestamps stay UTC with a Z suffix.", "resolution: today's min/max are 15-minute market prices; the daily series lo/hi are extremes of hourly means, so the two 'lowest price today' figures differ by construction. Each carries extremes_basis/resolution_min saying which it is.", "coverage: each day object now declares points/expected_points/partial (today LV: 96 of 96 at 15 min), so a genuinely short auction day and a truncated fetch are no longer indistinguishable." ] }