Germany–Luxembourg (DE-LU) bidding zone
The largest bidding zone in Europe by traded volume, covering Germany and Luxembourg jointly. It separated from Austria in October 2018, when persistent congestion on the German network made a single DE-AT-LU zone untenable. Its price is set across a wide and varied stack, and a large share of its generation is weather-dependent.
Reference data
- Zone code
- DE-LU
- Name
- Germany–Luxembourg
- Country
- DE
- Region
- Central Western Europe
- ENTSO-E EIC
- 10Y1001A1001A82H
- Delivery-day timezone
- Europe/Berlin
- 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.
What an analyst watches here
Wind and solar forecast error is the dominant driver of intraday movement, which makes forecast-versus-outturn bias the first thing to check before reading anything into a price. The zone's size means it also propagates: a DE-LU price is a reference point for most of its eleven neighbours.
Coverage
- Day-ahead prices
- Collected
- Bid curves
- Via the Nord Pool DE-LU 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.