SMARD Data

SMARD is an open data effort of the German Bundesnetzagentur which is in charge of the German energy network. It contains data about the production and consumption of energy.

The data is published freely for public use under the CC BY 4.0 license. More information can be found here.

Current Energy Production in Germany

The following is the production in the last available 15m period:

Conventional vs Renewable Energy Sources

Right now ? % of energy is produced from renewable sources in Germany.

Individual Energy Sources

The production is distributed as follows:

Data

Renewable

• Biomass: ? MWh
• Hydro: ? MWh
• Misc Renewable: ? MWh
• Photovoltaic: ? MWh
• Pumped Storage: ? MWh
• Wind Offshore: ? MWh
• Wind Onshore: ? MWh

Conventional

• Brown Coal: ? MWh
• Hard Coal: ? MWh
• Misc Conventional: ? MWh
• Natural Gas: ? MWh
• Nuclear: ? MWh

Topic structure

The topics are published with the following structure:

Scalar values per 15 minutes in MWh

stefan/smard/{country}/{production|consumption}/{energy_type}/value

Example:

stefan/smard/DE/production/photovoltaic/value

The value is an ASCII string of the last 15 minutes in MWh.

JSON values per 15 minutes in MWh

stefan/smard/{country}/{production|consumption}/{energy_type}/json

Example:

stefan/smard/DE/production/photovoltaic/json

An example of the value is:

{"value": 2552.0, "timestamp": "2024-10-11T23:00:00Z", "resolution": "15m", "unit": "MWh"}