Ordinary Ledger: Saturday power at €0.260 a kilowatt-hour wholesale, and a tank that still tracks Brent

Saturday’s German day-ahead base of €259.83 per megawatt hour is €0.260 per kilowatt-hour before taxes, levies and network charges¹. Desk arithmetic: at that wholesale reference, 3,500 kWh a year of plain energy would be about €910; your household tariff adds everything the auction does not. Dynamic tariffs track the hourly curve: late morning into early afternoon on this Saturday print sits near €0.23/kWh wholesale, while the 16:00–20:00 block is above €0.30¹.

Fuel. Brent’s weekly fall from above $110 toward about $97² is the input German stations will eventually feel, not the price on the forecourt today. This morning’s early national averages on the federal price register still had Super E10 near €1.97 and diesel near €2.21³. Desk arithmetic on those morning prints: a 50-litre tank of E10 is about €98.50; the same tank of diesel about €110.50. Early prints often firm after midday.

For you. Two columns, not one. Power: if you can shift a wash or a charge into the late-morning trough, the Saturday curve pays you in cents, not miracles¹. Fuel: wait for next week’s station averages before declaring the oil move “passed through”. Nothing here is advice.