Where a battery earns its keep.
How electricity is traded, what ancillary services exist, and who pays for capacity in 58 organized markets across 44 countries.
Electricity-markets atlas
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Choose a country. Find the market it trades in.
Highlighted countries have at least one electricity market on this map. Select a record and confirm the jurisdiction it covers.
Countries covered
Coverage note. Map highlighting means the dataset contains one or more market records associated with that country. It does not mean every record applies nationwide, and some regional records span several countries. Market rules are reissued; verify the current arrangements before design.
Europe 23 markets
- Baltic Balancing Capacity Market (BBCM)
- Belgium electricity market
- Denmark electricity market
- Estonia electricity market
- EU harmonised electricity-balancing framework
- Finland electricity market
- France electricity market
- Germany/Luxembourg electricity market
- Great Britain electricity market
- Greece electricity market
- Italy electricity market
- Latvia electricity market
- Lithuania electricity market
- Netherlands electricity market
- Nordic balancing-cooperation framework
- Norway electricity market
- Poland electricity market
- Portugal electricity market
- Single Electricity Market (SEM)
- Spain electricity market
- Sweden electricity market
- Switzerland electricity and balancing markets
- Türkiye electricity market
Asia-Pacific 21 markets
- China interprovincial electricity spot market
- China national unified electricity-market framework
- Gansu electricity spot market
- Guangdong electricity spot market
- Hubei electricity spot market
- Indian power exchanges and interstate system operation
- Japan wholesale and balancing markets
- Korea Power Exchange Cost-Based Pool
- National Electricity Market (NEM)
- National Electricity Market of Singapore (NEMS)
- New Zealand Electricity Market (NZEM)
- Peninsular Malaysia New Enhanced Dispatch Arrangement (NEDA)
- Shandong electricity spot market
- Shanxi electricity spot market
- Southern Regional electricity spot market
- Taiwan Power Company Electricity Trading Platform
- Vietnam Competitive Wholesale Electricity Market (VWEM)
- Western Inner Mongolia electricity spot market
- Wholesale Electricity Market (WEM)
- Wholesale Electricity Spot Market (WESM)
- Zhejiang electricity spot market
Europe and Central Asia 2 markets
Latin America and the Caribbean 1 market
Middle East 1 market
Source-linked, and honest about scope.
These pages render the Global Electricity Market Catalogue v1.2.0 (research cutoff , compilation CC BY 4.0) — 58 distinct markets; the 8 framework and regional overlays are listed above as what they are and never inflate the market count. A missing value on any page means the official source does not state it — never that it is zero.
Each market's capacity section says whether an auction was held in 2025, and on what basis. Individual auction results are not published here — these pages cover the mechanism design and its 2025 status. Grid connection is the other half of the story — the ride-through atlas covers what these grids demand of a battery.
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