€275.64 for Friday, and even its cheapest hour beats 28 of September's 30 days

The day-ahead auction for Friday 6 November settled at an average of €275.64 per megawatt hour for Germany and Luxembourg, SMARD data show¹. That is €18.26 above Thursday’s €257.38 and the highest daily average since the €314.85 of Thursday 29 October¹. Desk arithmetic: it is about 1.9 times September’s average of €144.82.

The shape of the day. The hourly curve has the familiar two humps. Prices climb from €229.65 at 05:00 to €323.06 at 07:00, ease to €226.97 at noon when the sun does some work, and then rise into the evening, peaking at €357.12 for the hour from 18:00¹. The spread between the dearest and the cheapest hour is €134.74¹.

The floor is the news. Friday’s cheapest hour, €222.38 at 03:00, would have been an expensive whole day in September: only two September delivery days, the 14th and the 22nd, averaged more¹. A high peak says that demand is stretching supply for a few hours. A high floor says power is expensive even at night, when demand is lowest. The fuel side offered no relief on Thursday: the Dutch TTF gas benchmark was about €89.35 per megawatt hour in the afternoon, up 1.5% on the day, and Brent was back up 2.7% at $97.20².

What it means for you. Most households do not pay the day-ahead price; their supplier buys ahead and smooths it. If you have a dynamic tariff, the instruction is unchanged and unglamorous: the hours before 06:00 and around midday are the least bad, and the 17:00 to 20:00 block is where a dishwasher or an electric car costs the most¹. The auction is published every day around noon. It is one of the most useful free documents in the country.