Evening edition · Friday, 6 November 2026
€259.83 for Saturday, and a floor still above September's average day
Friday's auction for Saturday delivery eased €15.81 from Friday's €275.64. The cheap hours are still dear by autumn standards.
The day-ahead auction for Saturday 7 November settled at a DE-LU base of €259.83 per megawatt hour, VoltWatch’s reading of the quarter-hour results shows1. That is €15.81 below Friday’s €275.64 delivery-day average on the SMARD series2. The Saturday range ran from €220.00 at 09:45 to €344.92 at 15:45, with no negative-price quarters1. France, the Netherlands and Belgium cleared within a euro of Germany on the base1.
Line chart of the daily average German-Luxembourg day-ahead electricity price from 1 September to 7 November 2026, in euros per megawatt hour. It falls to €30.12 on Saturday 24 October and €13.12 on Sunday 25 October during the storm, then climbs to €314.85 on Thursday 29 October. Friday 6 November averaged €275.64; the latest value is €259.83 for delivery on Saturday 7 November, still well above September's average near €145.
Source Bundesnetzagentur | SMARD.de via VoltWatch day-ahead DE-LU averages, delivery days 1 Sep to 7 Nov 2026; Saturday 7 Nov base €259.83 (VoltWatch, stand 6 Nov 2026 ~13:00 CET); Friday 6 Nov €275.64 from prior SMARD series · CC BY 4.0 / reported open auction. Bundesnetzagentur | SMARD.de, market data. CC BY 4.0.
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Latest values as a table
| Date | Day-ahead DE-LU |
|---|---|
| 2026-11-02 | 259.31 |
| 2026-11-03 | 252.85 |
| 2026-11-04 | 248.99 |
| 2026-11-05 | 257.38 |
| 2026-11-06 | 275.64 |
| 2026-11-07 | 259.83 |
The shape. Hours before dawn sit near €230–€250; the midday trough bottoms near €226 around 11:00; the evening block from 16:00 to 20:00 is back above €300, peaking near €325 in the hourly averages VoltWatch lists1. Desk arithmetic: Saturday’s base is still about 1.8 times September’s average of roughly €145 on the same SMARD series2. A softer Saturday is relief relative to Friday, not a return to early autumn.
For you. Most households do not pay the day-ahead price directly. If you are on a dynamic tariff, the least bad window on this curve is late morning into early afternoon; the 16:00–20:00 block is where a dishwasher or a car charger costs the most1. The auction publishes around noon every day. It remains one of the most useful free documents in the country. Nothing here is advice.
What to watch
- Sunday's day-ahead auction around noon CET; weekend demand usually softens the average further if wind cooperates.
- TTF gas and residual load into next week — both still set the evening hump1.
A Saturday that is cheaper than Friday can still be expensive for the year. The floor is the news that lasts.
Sources
- Strompreis morgen: Day-Ahead-Großhandelspreise für 07.11.2026 — VoltWatch, 6 Nov 2026, stand ~13:00 CET.
- €275.64 for Friday — Inside Desk (SMARD series) — Inside Desk / Bundesnetzagentur SMARD, retrieved 5–6 Nov 2026.
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