Can I compare the British and Danish prices directly?

Not as like for like. Great Britain’s figure is an imbalance price, Denmark’s is a day-ahead auction price and Australia’s is a real-time dispatch price; each answers a different question.

Why do the U.S. rows show only demand?

The board publishes a price only from a source whose licence allows republication. For the U.S. grids it shows EIA-930 demand, which is public data.

What does a dash mean?

The market does not publish that figure, or not in a form we may republish. It is not a zero.

Why do the rows show different times?

Each source publishes on its own schedule: every five minutes in Australia, every half hour in Great Britain, hourly with a delay in the U.S. Every row shows its own as-of time.

Grid recap · Monday 2 November 2026 (UTC day)

Published 00:30 UTC on 3 Nov 2026 from data as then available; later operator revisions are not applied.

Electricity used on 2 Nov, by market

GB743,008D MWh 35.6D %
TW729,737D MWh 34.9D %
NSW173,010D MWh 8.3D %
QLD154,921D MWh 7.4D %
VIC122,826D MWh 5.9D %
DK117,955D MWh 5.6D %
TAS23,923D MWh 1.1D %
SA22,835D MWh 1.1D %

Partial day, not in the totals: PJM 79D %, MISO 79D %, ERCOT 79D %, SPP 79D %, ISO-NE 79D %.

Cheapest hour SA 09:30–10:30 ACDT · −20.71D AUD/MWh

Most expensive hour DK2 18:00–19:00 CET · 2,593.27D DKK/MWh

Below zero SA 9 h 10 minD · QLD 5 minD

What happened on 2 November

On 2 November, 2 markets paid buyers to take power at some point: South Australia for 9 h 10 minD and Queensland for 5 minD. The longest unbroken run was in South Australia, 6 h 05 minD from 10:55–17:00 ACDT; the lowest price there during the day was −A$39.02D/MWh. All of it fell in local daytime, the hours when solar output in the NEM is available. This site does not publish a generation mix for the NEM regions, so the solar and wind share in those intervals is not shown. Denmark DK2 spiked to DKK 2,593/MWhD (about 389D USD/MWh) in the hour from 18:00 CET, above our fixed threshold of 300 USD/MWh.

The highest renewable share among the metered grids was in Great Britain: 43.4D % across the day, with wind at 30.7D %. Taiwan followed at 17.7D % renewable with wind 8.8D % and solar 7.4D %. Partial mix data, not compared: Denmark. 2,088,215D MWh was used across the 8D fully metered markets; Great Britain alone took 35.6D %.

Time below zero across all markets added up to 9 h 15 minD, more than the 1 h 55 minD on 1 November. Queensland went below zero after staying positive the day before. Tasmania and Victoria stayed above zero this time. The biggest day-on-day moves in electricity used were Great Britain at +20.4D % and South Australia at −17.3D %. Great Britain's renewable share rose by 10.4D points, from 33.0D %. Taiwan's renewable share rose by 6.9D points, from 10.8D %. The cheapest hour anywhere cost about −15D USD/MWh, against −4D on 1 November.

How to read this. The 2 November recap covers 15D markets (8D with a full day of demand) and was frozen at 00:30 UTC on 3 November; later operator revisions are not applied. A D badge marks a number we calculated from the operators' metered data, an M badge one published as is. Durations add up priced intervals below zero, clock times are each market's local time, and shares are energy-weighted over the day. Definitions and limits are in the methodology.

ⓘ How this recap is made

Built once after the UTC day ended, then frozen. Electricity used is the metered demand of each market added up over the day (Great Britain: transmission generation); only markets with at least 95 % metered coverage of the day are added up. Hours are UTC hours priced as the mean of the source periods. Below zero is the sum of priced intervals under zero. Nothing is estimated or filled in.

ⓘ Sources & licences

Source: Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO), NEMWEB (licence); Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Hourly Electric Grid Monitor (EIA-930) (licence); Contains BMRS data © Elexon Limited copyright and database right 2026 (licence); Source: Energinet (www.energidataservice.dk); Taiwan Power Company 2026 台灣電力公司各機組發電量即時資訊(含外購電力) / 台灣電力公司今日系統供需狀況 — Open Government Data License: https://data.gov.tw/license. Derived numbers and charts: CC BY 4.0, SolarCostData Data Desk. Source data keeps its own licence.

Not for trading or operational decisions. Provisional data.