France (FR) bidding zone
Dominated by a nuclear fleet, so the zone's price responds far more to plant availability than to fuel cost. Outage notices are correspondingly load-bearing: a French delivery day is largely explained by how much nuclear capacity is declared available for it.
Reference data
- Zone code
- FR
- Name
- France
- Country
- FR
- Region
- Central Western Europe
- EIC
- 10YFR-RTE------C
- Delivery-day timezone
- Europe/Paris
- 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
Availability data is the reconstruction's most important input here, and also its most fragile. An outage published late looks identical to capacity being withheld until the notice arrives.
Coverage
- Day-ahead prices
- Collected
- Bid curves
- Via the FR bid-curve cluster
- Continuous intraday
- 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.