Belgium (BE) bidding zone
A small, densely interconnected zone with a nuclear fleet under a long-running phase-out policy. Its price tracks its neighbours closely most of the time, and diverges sharply when the France-Belgium or Netherlands-Belgium border binds.
Reference data
- Zone code
- BE
- Name
- Belgium
- Country
- BE
- Region
- Central Western Europe
- ENTSO-E EIC
- 10YBE----------2
- Delivery-day timezone
- Europe/Brussels
- Clearing currency
- EUR
The EIC is the in_Domain / out_Domain value for ENTSO-E Transparency Platform queries against this zone. Verify it against the ENTSO-E EIC registry before relying on it: several countries publish aliased bidding-zone, control-area and market-balance-area domains, and the correct one depends on what is being asked for.
Coverage
- Day-ahead prices
- Collected
- Bid curves
- Via the Nord Pool BE cluster
- Continuous intraday
- EPEX SIDC, 60 / 30 / 15-minute resolution
Neighbours are day-ahead coupling topology only — no capacity and no direction. They are what the reconstruction uses to derive a coupling reference price for modelled net imports, and they are not a substitute for allocated cross-zonal capacity, which is not yet ingested.