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Get future cheap hours with hours_available

This API looks into the future from now and finds given number of cheapest hours (considering electricity plus variable transport) in requested country and time interval.

When making request, most important parameter is, how may cheap hours are required - this have to specified in API path count.

Before that you have to pick 2-letter country code for which area you asking information.

Depending point in time, when you issue request, different amout of Nordpool data could be avilable, either till end of today or end of tomorrow. On request you can specify interesting time period start (defaults next hour) and end (defaults to the end of period with pricing info), in ISO format with timezone offset. If tomorrows data is not available yet, and end is specified as tomorrow-s time, result will be based on avilable info, that is till end of today.

for example requesting 2 best hours for Estonia, might return following:
[
{
“timestamp”: 1669770000,
“price”: 265.79,
“timehumanutc”: “2022-11-30T01:00:00+00:00”,
“timehumanlocal”: “2022-11-30T03:00:00 EET”,
“pricekw”: 0.2658,
“pricekwtransp”: 0.2816
},
{
“timestamp”: 1669773600,
“price”: 262.37,
“timehumanutc”: “2022-11-30T02:00:00+00:00”,
“timehumanlocal”: “2022-11-30T04:00:00 EET”,
“pricekw”: 0.2624,
“pricekwtransp”: 0.2782
}
]

where :

  • price - is pure electricity price for 1 MWh in Eur
  • price_kw - is pure electricity price for 1 kWh in Eur
  • price_kw_transp - is electricity and transport service price for 1 kWh in Eur