Denmark West (DK1) bidding zone
Denmark west of the Great Belt, synchronous with the Continental European grid. Very high wind penetration relative to demand, so DK1 regularly exports heavily and sees negative prices in windy, low-demand hours.
Reference data
- Zone code
- DK1
- Name
- Denmark West
- Country
- DK
- Region
- Nordics
- ENTSO-E EIC
- 10YDK-1--------W
- Delivery-day timezone
- Europe/Copenhagen
- 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
Negative prices here are routine market behaviour, not an anomaly. A screen that treated them as one would fire constantly.
Coverage
- Day-ahead prices
- Collected
- Bid curves
- Via the Nord Pool DK cluster, aggregated with DK2
- 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.