European Power Capture Rates by Technology
Which generation technology actually earns above or below the average power price, per bidding zone per month: the volume-weighted CAPTURE PRICE and the CAPTURE RATE (capture ÷ month baseload) for nuclear, gas, hard coal, lignite, reservoir hydro and wind & solar. Baseload plant sits near 1.0; dispatchable peakers clear above 1.0; variable renewables fall below 1.0 as they self-cannibalise. The whole fleet's revenue quality in one panel - the metric that decides asset economics and PPA pricing - derived cleanly from day-ahead prices + generation-by-fuel across ~40 European zones, 2018-present. Licence-clean and AI-training-safe.
- Source
- derived
- Licence
- Redistributable open data
- Updates
- Monthly
- Data through
- 2026-07-01
- Quality
- QC clean · 0 failures
- Format
- Apache Parquet + dictionary
Safe to train on
Built only from a named, redistributable official source under a documented open licence - not scraped web data. No copyright grey zone, no personal data. Ships machine-readable Croissant metadata (ML Commons - loads in Hugging Face / Kaggle / Google), an AI training-licence manifest documenting source, licence and provenance for your model's data governance, and a machine-readable data dictionary (drop it into an agent / RAG prompt so the model knows every column) - all inspectable before you buy.
What's included
- Capture PRICE (EUR/MWh) + capture RATE (÷ baseload) per zone × technology × month
- 8 technologies: nuclear, gas, hard coal, lignite, reservoir hydro, wind onshore/offshore, solar
- Rate > 1 = earns a premium (peakers); rate < 1 = cannibalised (solar/wind)
- ~40 European bidding zones, 2018 → present, monthly, volume-weighted
- Derived purely from day-ahead prices + generation-by-fuel; licence-clean & AI-training-safe
- Sources: ENTSO-E (CC-BY)
Schema
| Column | Type | Description | Filled | Distinct |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| zone | str | Bidding zone | 100.0% | 40 |
| ts | timestamp (UTC) | Month (start) | 100.0% | 103 |
| variable | str | Technology · capture price (EUR/MWh) or · capture rate (ratio) | 100.0% | 16 |
| value | float | EUR/MWh (capture price) or ratio (capture rate) | 100.0% | 11,969 |
| unit | str | mixed - see the variable name | 100.0% | 2 |
| res_min | int | Native resolution (monthly) | 100.0% | 1 |
Sample & preview
Every purchase ships as Apache Parquet with a data dictionary and the full QC report. A free sample (first rows + schema) is downloadable here - confirm fit before you buy. Source: derived (redistributable open data; attribution passes through - see our Licence).
Don't trust screenshots - drop the sample into your notebook right now.
import pandas as pd df = pd.read_parquet("european-power-capture-rates_sample.parquet") df.info() # typed columns, gap-aware, ready to join⬇ Download free Parquet sample or CSV for Excel
Coverage: 40 zones
AT · BE · BG · CH · CZ · DE_LU · DK1 · DK2 · EE · ES · FI · FR · GR · HR · HU · IE_SEM · IT_CALA · IT_CNOR · IT_CSUD · IT_NORD · IT_SARD · IT_SICI · IT_SUD · LT · LV · NL · NO1 · NO2 · NO3 · NO4 · NO5 · PL · PT · RO · SE1 · SE2 · SE3 · SE4 · SI · SK
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