Battery storage (BESS) day-ahead arbitrage revenue for a European bidding zone
Battery storage (BESS) day-ahead arbitrage revenue for a European bidding zone: perfect-foresight LP per day on historical prices, annualised revenue per MW, cycles, payback. Use when sizing or screening a battery project, comparing zones, or answering how much a battery would have earned in a given year.
Answeringour last check, 2026-10-20
1 of 1checks answered this week
189 msmedian answer time
$0.5listed price per call
$0.5price it asked us
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Endpoint
GET https://bess-x402.onrender.com/v1/bess/arbitrage
| Category | Market data |
|---|---|
| Provider host | bess-x402.onrender.com |
| Networks | eip155:137, eip155:42161, eip155:8453 |
| Payment schemes | exact |
| Self-reported calls, 30 days | 1 from 1 payers (the provider's figure, not ours) |
Our checks, last 30 days
| Day | Result | HTTP | Asked | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-20 | valid payment request | 402 | $0.5 | 189 ms |
Example input (from the provider)
{
"method": "GET",
"queryParams": {
"end": "2025-12-31",
"energy_mwh": 2,
"power_mw": 1,
"start": "2025-01-01",
"zone": "DE-LU"
},
"type": "http"
}
Promised output schema (from the provider)
{
"$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
"properties": {
"input": {
"additionalProperties": false,
"properties": {
"method": {
"enum": [
"GET",
"HEAD",
"DELETE"
],
"type": "string"
},
"queryParams": {
"properties": {
"capex_per_kwh": {
"description": "Optional capex per kWh for a simple payback estimate",
"type": "number"
},
"daily": {
"description": "Include the per-day breakdown, default false",
"type": "boolean"
},
"degradation_cost_per_mwh": {
"description": "Cost per MWh discharged, default 0",
"type": "number"
},
"end": {
"description": "Last day, YYYY-MM-DD, at most 366 days after start",
"format": "date",
"type": "string"
},
"energy_mwh": {
"description": "Battery energy capacity in MWh",
"type": "number"
},
"max_cycles_per_day": {
"description": "Default 1",
"type": "number"
},
"power_mw": {
"description": "Battery power rating in MW",
"type": "number"
},
"round_trip_efficiency": {
"description": "0-1, default 0.88",
"type": "number"
},
"start": {
"description": "First day, YYYY-MM-DD",
"format": "date",
"type": "string"
},
"zone": {
"description": "European bidding zone",
"enum": [
"AT",
"BE",
"CH",
"CZ",
"DE-LU",
"DK1",
"DK2",
"FR",
"HU",
"IT-North",
"NL",
"NO2",
"PL",
"SE4",
"SI"
],
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"zone",
"start",
"end"
],
"type": "object"
},
"type": {
"const": "http",
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"type",
"method"
],
"type": "object"
},
"output": {
"properties": {
"example": {
"type": "object"
},
"type": {
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"type"
],
"type": "object"
}
},
"required": [
"input"
],
"type": "object"
}