Switzerland (CH) bidding zone
Switzerland sits inside the synchronous Continental European grid but outside EU day-ahead market coupling, having no electricity agreement with the EU. Capacity on Swiss borders is not allocated implicitly through SDAC the way it is between member states.
Reference data
- Zone code
- CH
- Name
- Switzerland
- Country
- CH
- Region
- Central Western Europe
- ENTSO-E EIC
- 10YCH-SWISSGRIDZ
- Delivery-day timezone
- Europe/Zurich
- 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
Because Swiss borders are not implicitly coupled, price differences against neighbours are not evidence of anything on their own — the arbitrage the coupling-divergence screen assumes elsewhere is simply not available here.
Coverage
- Day-ahead prices
- Collected
- Bid curves
- Not published — this zone is not in a Nord Pool bid-curve 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.