Energy market order books show one number. Your wallet receives another. The gap is the market’s cut — and no market prints it next to the price. (Renting out, energy lending — venues use both words; the mechanics and the cuts are the same.)
The shares below aren’t guesses or terms-of-service archaeology: they’re measured on our own production fills through mid-2026, and re-measured continuously, because we price by them every day.
The number nobody prints
When a buyer pays, say, 45 SUN per unit of energy per day, the seller does not receive 45 SUN. The market keeps a share of every deal — in our measurements, 25–30% depending on the venue — and some add a flat fee per fill on top.
That means two things worth internalizing:
- Book prices overstate your income by a quarter or more. Any yield estimate built on order-book prices is fiction until it’s multiplied by the seller share.
- Ranking markets by book price is a mistake. A higher gross on a 70% venue can pay less than a lower gross on a 75% one. The only number that matters is net.
The three markets, measured
| market | seller keeps | flat fees | practical floor |
|---|---|---|---|
| TronEnergize | ~75% | — | takes small fills |
| TronSave | ~75% | ~0.3 TRX/fill | ~100k energy/fill |
| TEM | ~70% | — | ~50k energy/fill |
A few notes that don’t fit in a table:
- TronSave’s flat fee matters at the small end. 0.3 TRX is noise on a large fill and a real bite on a tiny one — small orders there can net less than the share suggests.
- The floors decide who can play where. With a small stake, TronSave’s ~100k-energy minimum per fill may simply be out of reach, and TEM’s ~50k too — which leaves TronEnergize as the venue that takes the small orders the others won’t.
- Access differs. TronEnergize and TEM are public order books; TronSave runs an API-key model for sellers. None of them ever hold your TRX — fills are on-chain delegations either way.
How payouts actually arrive
Payouts land as plain TRX transfers from the market’s payout wallet, usually shortly after the delegation confirms. Two habits keep this honest:
- Expect small drift, verify within tolerance. Markets re-derive the credited energy at their own conversion rate, so the payout can differ from your estimate by a fraction of a percent. We match every payout on-chain against the expected net and flag anything beyond ~0.1%.
- Distrust the register, trust the chain. A market’s API response is a claim; the delegation landing on-chain and the transfer arriving in the wallet are facts. Our cycle confirms both before income is ever booked.
What this does to strategy
Pricing by net changes the picture in ways book-watching never shows. A venue with the best headline prices can be the worst payer after its cut; a “worse” venue can win on small fills because it charges no flat; and when rates float, the spread between venues’ net prices is what decides where the next delegation goes.
Doing this by hand means watching three books, three fee models and three floors, daily. That comparison shopping is a big part of what the engine automates — every fill is priced net-of-cut before it’s placed.
New to the mechanism itself? Start with how TRON energy rental works — and the honest list of what can and can’t go wrong is in is renting out TRON energy safe?
Shares and floors are our measurements, mid-2026, on real fills. Markets can change their terms — when they do, this page gets updated, not defended.