Spain (ES) bidding zone
The larger half of the Iberian market, with a very large solar and wind fleet. Iberia is weakly interconnected to the rest of Europe (the France-Spain border is small relative to Iberian demand), so Spanish prices routinely detach from Continental ones.
Reference data
- Zone code
- ES
- Name
- Spain
- Country
- ES
- Region
- Iberia
- EIC
- 10YES-REE------0
- Delivery-day timezone
- Europe/Madrid
- Clearing currency
- EUR
The Energy Identification Code is the in_Domain / out_Domain value that identifies this zone in a pan-European market query. Verify it against the official 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
Weak interconnection is the reason the coupling-divergence screen reads differently here: a Spain-France spread is the normal state of affairs, not an arbitrage nobody took.
Coverage
- Day-ahead prices
- Collected
- Bid curves
- Not published: no exchange publishes an aggregated curve for this zone
- Continuous intraday
- Not collected for this zone
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.