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Grid statistics

How Europe's grid compares and trends — cross-country rankings right now, and daily carbon, price, and renewable trends over the archive. Aggregates count only zones with live data; days with too little coverage are shown as gaps, never guessed.

39 zones live
228g avg carbon intensity
174.2 avg day-ahead price
48% avg renewable share
291GW total demand

Right now across Europe

Most carbon-intense gCO₂/kWh

What's powering Europe

Live generation now: 277 GW

  • Nuclear 22% 61.0 GW
  • Wind (onshore) 21% 58.5 GW
  • Natural gas 18% 50.3 GW
  • Lignite (brown coal) 8% 22.2 GW
  • Hydro (reservoir) 8% 21.4 GW
  • Hydro (run-of-river) 6% 16.4 GW
  • Hard coal 5% 14.1 GW
  • Biomass 3% 8.9 GW
  • Wind (offshore) 3% 8.2 GW
  • B20 1% 4.1 GW
  • Solar 1% 3.0 GW
  • B10 1.0% 2.7 GW
  • B17 0.7% 2.0 GW
  • B06 0.6% 1.7 GW
  • B03 0.3% 749 MW
  • B15 0.2% 673 MW
  • Geothermal 0.2% 612 MW
  • B08 0.0% 120 MW
  • B25 0.0% 114 MW

Trends

2026-08-17 → 2026-09-14 · 27 days covered, 2 withheld for low coverage why? →

Carbon intensity gCO₂/kWh

Line = Europe average · band = cleanest to most carbon-intense country

104711

Day-ahead price €/MWh

no data20975

Renewable share %

6454

Mix over time

Each column is a day's generation mix

  • Nuclear
  • Solar
  • Natural gas
  • Wind (onshore)
  • Hydro (reservoir)
  • Lignite (brown coal)
  • Hydro (run-of-river)
  • Hard coal
  • Biomass
  • Wind (offshore)
  • B10
  • B20
  • B17
  • B06
  • B15
  • B03
  • Geothermal
  • B25
  • B08
  • B07

Price vs carbon

Each dot is a day — are cheap days clean days?

24117975209
↑ gCO₂/kWh €/MWh →

Price duration €/MWh

Every hour sorted priciest → cheapest (hourly day-ahead)

39515
Aggregated from the Gridomics archive (zone_daily rollup) and the live snapshot — ENTSO-E + NESO. Free data only; forward/futures prices are not yet included.