Norway NO4 (Tromsø) (NO4) bidding zone

Northern Norway. Consistently the lowest-priced Norwegian zone, with abundant hydro, low demand and limited transmission southward.

Reference data

Zone code: NO4
Name: Norway NO4 (Tromsø)
Country: NO
Region: Nordics
EIC: 10YNO-4--------9
Delivery-day timezone: Europe/Oslo
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.

Coverage

Day-ahead prices: Collected
Bid curves: Via the NO bid-curve cluster, aggregated with NO1, NO2, NO3, NO5
Continuous intraday: SIDC, 60 / 15-minute resolution
Interconnected neighbours: NO3 SE1 SE2 FI

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.

Enforcement decisions in this country

Published market abuse decisions by this country’s energy regulator, written up from the regulator’s own decision. A decision is listed by the authority that took it, not by the zone the conduct touched.

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