Replay Historical public data played back quarter-hour by quarter-hour. Not live.
Counterfactual on national aggregates: what each country's day-ahead solar miss would have cost, priced at its imbalance price. Not any producer's P&L.
Grid Desk data currently runs to 5 Aug 2026; the homepage headline covers to 31 Aug 2026.
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Every day in the window: five-country net cost per day
Tallest bars are clipped. The five strips show which days each country has data for. Click or drag to move the replayCost of the miss across the five markets
This day, quarter-hour by quarter-hour (UTC)
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Click a row to follow that countryTop-1% moments
Latest firstQuarter-hours at or above the top-1% cost threshold of the audited window (175,632 country-quarter-hours). They appear here as the replay reaches them.
Day so far
Prices, EUR/MWh
Cost of the miss per quarter-hour, EUR
Country profile
Audited window rows, exploratory cutNet cost per month, million EUR
Its five costliest days (click to replay)
Audited headline
What day-ahead solar forecast misses would have cost, 1 Jan 2025 to 5 Aug 2026
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Cost by month and country
By country
When
Where in the day and the year the money moves
Every quarter-hour
One column per day, one row per quarter-hour (local time). Click a cell to replay that moment.
Net cost by hour of day
local time, million EURHow concentrated the cost is
share of adverse cost in the costliest country-quarter-hours; per-country lines rank each country's own quarter-hoursWhy
A miss costs money only when the price moves against it
Miss against price spread
Each dot is a quarter-hour. Across: actual minus forecast, as % of forecast. Up: imbalance price minus day-ahead price.
Net cost by day-ahead price level
Selected countries and months, million EUR. Negative bars are gains. Each price band includes its upper bound.
Worst moments