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Finland imbalance price

Finland's single imbalance price per 15-minute settlement period, published by Fingrid, the price every Finnish balance-responsible party settles imbalances at.

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Endpoints

Row schema

ColumnTypeUnitNullableDescription
mtu_start string (date-time) — no Settlement period start (ISO 8601 UTC). 15-minute period under EBGL Article 53.
price_eur_mwh number EUR/MWh yes Single-direction imbalance settlement price for the FI bidding zone. Derived from the marginal balancing-energy bid activated through MARI/PICASSO.

Top-level response: { schema_version, generated_at, meta, rows: [...] }

Code samples

curl 
curl https://public-data.volton.energy/v1/imbalance-price-fi/latest.json
DuckDB 
SELECT * FROM read_json_auto(
  'https://public-data.volton.energy/v1/imbalance-price-fi/latest.json',
  records = false
);
Python (pandas) 
import pandas as pd

resp = pd.read_json('https://public-data.volton.energy/v1/imbalance-price-fi/latest.json')
df = pd.DataFrame(resp['rows'])
R (jsonlite) 
library(jsonlite)
data <- fromJSON('https://public-data.volton.energy/v1/imbalance-price-fi/latest.json')
df <- data$rows
JavaScript (fetch) 
const r = await fetch('https://public-data.volton.energy/v1/imbalance-price-fi/latest.json');
const { rows, meta } = await r.json();
Excel Power Query (M) 
let
    Source = Json.Document(Web.Contents("https://public-data.volton.energy/v1/imbalance-price-fi/latest.json")),
    Rows = Source[rows],
    AsTable = Table.FromRecords(Rows)
in
    AsTable

Methodology

Finland uses a single imbalance price: one price per 15-minute settlement period applied to both shortage and surplus, derived from the activated balancing energy. Sourced from Fingrid.

FAQ

How does this relate to the Baltic imbalance price?
Same concept (single-price imbalance settlement) but a separate market, this is the Finnish price published by Fingrid, distinct from the Baltic Transparency Dashboard series.

License + citation

Source: Fingrid Open Data via Volton, CC-BY-4.0. CC-BY-4.0.

Volton Technology OÜ (2026). Finland imbalance price.
CC-BY-4.0. https://public-data.volton.energy/imbalance-price-fi/

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