Poland (PL) bidding zone
A large, coal-dominated system in transition, with growing wind and solar. Coal and carbon costs set the Polish price far more often than in neighbouring zones, and its stack sits high in the merit order for much of the year.
Reference data
- Zone code
- PL
- Name
- Poland
- Country
- PL
- Region
- Central Eastern Europe
- ENTSO-E EIC
- 10YPL-AREA-----S
- Delivery-day timezone
- Europe/Warsaw
- 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 PL cluster
- Continuous intraday
- EPEX SIDC, 60 / 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.