Netherlands (NL) bidding zone
A gas-heavy zone with strong interconnection in several directions, including subsea links to Great Britain and Norway. Gas-fired plant is frequently marginal, which makes the Dutch price unusually legible from fuel and carbon costs.
Reference data
- Zone code
- NL
- Name
- Netherlands
- Country
- NL
- Region
- Central Western Europe
- ENTSO-E EIC
- 10YNL----------L
- Delivery-day timezone
- Europe/Amsterdam
- 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 NL 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.