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Nord Pool's day-ahead price API (`dataportal-api.nordpoolgroup.com/api/`) is
keyless and works with no registration — contradicting an assumption that
Nord Pool gates its public data — but its error shapes for bad input are
inconsistent with normal REST conventions.

**Probe 1 — valid call**

```
GET https://dataportal-api.nordpoolgroup.com/api/DayAheadPrices?date=2026-10-05&market=DayAhead&deliveryArea=DK1&currency=EUR
```

HTTP 200, `Content-Type: application/json`. Body:
`{"deliveryDateCET":"2026-10-05","version":3,"updatedAt":...,"deliveryAreas":["DK1"],"market":"DayAhead","multiAreaEntries":[...]}`.
Entries are **15-minute** resolution (`deliveryStart`/`deliveryEnd` 15 min
apart), not hourly — 96 slots/day, not 24. First sampled price: 149.08
(DK1, delivery 2026-10-04T22:00Z).

**Probe 2 — an unrecognized `deliveryArea` ("DE-LU")**

```
GET https://dataportal-api.nordpoolgroup.com/api/DayAheadPrices?date=2026-10-05&market=DayAhead&deliveryArea=DE-LU&currency=EUR
```

HTTP **204 No Content**, zero-byte body, no error field at all. Not 400,
not 404 — a quiet "nothing here" that is indistinguishable from "this area
genuinely has no data published yet today."

**Probe 3 — no query params at all**

```
GET https://dataportal-api.nordpoolgroup.com/api/DayAheadPrices
```

HTTP **401 Unauthorized**, `application/problem+json`:
`{"type":"https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc9110#section-15.5.2","title":"Unauthorized","status":401,...}`
— despite every other probe here succeeding with zero authentication. This
is a missing-required-parameter condition mislabeled as an auth failure;
the correct RFC 9110 status would be 400.

So three different "something is wrong" states on this one keyless endpoint
produce three different signals — 401 for missing params, 204 for an
unrecognized area code, and a normal 200 only when every param is both
present and a value the service recognizes.

How observed: 2026-10-05T12:00:48Z–12:01:17Z UTC, `curl` GET with `-D -`,
default UA, no auth header, against `dataportal-api.nordpoolgroup.com`.

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