Single Intraday Coupling (SIDC)
What is Single Intraday Coupling?
Single Intraday Coupling (SIDC) creates a single EU cross-zonal intraday electricity market. In simple terms, buyers and sellers of energy (market participants) are able to work together across Europe to trade electricity continuously on the day the energy is needed.
An integrated intraday market makes intraday trading more efficient across Europe by:
- promoting competition
- increasing liquidity
- making it easier to share energy generation resources
- making it easier for market participants to allow for unexpected changes in consumption and outages
As renewable intermittent production such as solar energy increases, market participants are becoming more interested in trading in the intraday markets. This is because it has become more challenging for market participants to be in balance (i.e. supplying the correct amount of energy) after the closing of the day-ahead market.
Being able to balance their positions until one hour before delivery time is beneficial for market participants and for the power systems alike by, among other things, reducing the need for reserves and associated costs while allowing enough time for carrying out system operation processes for ensuring system security.
How Single Intraday Coupling began
Single Intraday Coupling (SIDC) is a cooperation between Nominated Electricity Market Operators (NEMOs) and Transmission System Operators (TSOs) which enables continuous cross-border trading across Europe.
SIDC follows on from the XBID (Cross Border Intraday) project which delivered, in June 2018, the first go-live of the intraday continuous trading platform. It allows energy networks to integrate and expand across Europe.
SIDC was launched on 12/13 June 2018 across 15 countries. In the first 16 months of operation over 25 million trades were completed across the countries involved. In November 2019 and September 2021, SIDC went live across a further eight countries resulting in 23 countries being coupled.
SIDC is in line with the CACM (Capacity Allocation and Congestion Management) EU Target model for an integrated intraday market.
SIDC geographical scope and future go-live phases
SIDC will expand in several phases, also referred to as “waves”. The map below shows the geographic spread of the first, second, third, and fourth waves which have been implemented.
The first go-live wave was in June 2018 and included 15 countries. A second go-live with seven further countries was achieved in November 2019, a third go-live including Italy in September 2021. In November 2022 the fourth go-live was achieved with Greece and Slovakia. The table below lists the countries of the first, second,third, and fourth waves.
1 st wave June 2018
- Austria
- Belgium
- Denmark
- Estonia
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Norway
- The Netherlands
- Portugal
- Spain
- Sweden
2 nd wave November 2019
- Bulgaria
- Croatia
- Czech-Republic
- Hungary
- Poland
- Romania
- Slovenia
3 rd wave September 2021
- Italy
4 th wave November 2022
- Greece
- Slovakia
To accomplish SIDC, TSOs and NEMOs work in close collaboration.
The organisations involved are:
Transmission System Operators (TSOs):
50HERTZ, ADMIE, AMPRION, APG, AST, ČEPS, CREOS, EirGrid, ELERING, ELES, ELIA, ELSO, ESO, FINGRID, HOPS, Litgrid, MAVIR, PSE, REE, REN, RTE, SEPS, SONI, STATNETT, SVENSKA KRAFTNÄT, TenneT DE, TenneT NL, TERNA, TRANSELECTRICA and TransnetBW.
Nominated Electricity Market Operators (NEMOs):
BSP, CROPEX, EirGrid, EPEX SPOT, GME, HEnEx, HUPX, IBEX, Nord Pool, OKTE, OMIE, OPCOM, OTE, SONI and TGE.
How Single Intraday Coupling works
SIDC works on a common IT system with:
a Shared Order Book (SOB),
a Capacity Management Module (CMM), and
a Shipping Module (SM).
This means that orders entered by market participants for continuous matching in one country can be matched by orders submitted by market participants in any other country as long as they are both within the project’s reach and transmission capacity is available.
The intraday solution supports continuous trading that is both:
explicit (capacity only. Note: only provided where requested by National Regulatory Authorities (NRAs) ie. at the French-German and the Croatian-Slovenian borders), and
implicit (capacity and energy together)
When market participants of each NEMO submit orders, they are put together in one Shared Order Book (SOB). In a similar way, TSOs make available all the intraday cross-border capacities in the Capacity Management Module (CMM).
This allows NEMOs to operate trading systems to show orders to market participants from other market participants in three groups:
within the same NEMO
from other NEMOs in the same market area
from other market areas as long as there is enough capacity available
How Single Intraday Coupling works in detail
When a market participant submits an order for a different market area, it can be matched (i.e. met) as long as there is enough transmission capacity available. To match an order simply means that the market participant can meet and supply the energy demand.
Trade is done on a first-come-first-served principle where the highest buy price and the lowest sell price get served first.
Updating the SOB and CMM
When the order can be matched, the order matching is associated with implicit capacity allocation (this is when capacity and energy are priced together). While two orders are being matched, the SOB and CMM are updated immediately.
The update of the SOB means that the matched orders are removed from the SOB, and consequently the available transmission capacity in the CMM is updated. The number of borders that have their capacities updated depends on where the matched orders are located.
How data about trades is used
The Shipping Module (SM) receives data from the SOB about all trades when they are concluded. These can be:
- between two different delivery areas, and
- in the same delivery area between two different NEMOs.
The Shipping Module (SM) of the SIDC solution provides information from concluded trades to all relevant parties such as NEMOs and TSOs.
The data from the SOB and the CMM is enhanced with data from:
- the relevant TSO,
- the Central Counter Party (CCP), and
- shipping agent data from the Shipping Module (SM).
This enhanced data is then sent to relevant parties such as the NEMOs and TSOs at the configured moments.
Market information
Products available
You can read what specific products are available in different market areas in the table below.
30-min products are currently tradable across the borders FR-DE, FR-BE and BE-NL.
15-min products are currently tradable across the borders BE-NL, BE-DE, NL-DE, AT-DE, AT-HU, AT-SI, HU-RO and BG-RO. The availability of 15 minute products across other market areas will further expand in the future.
Overview of Allocation Constraints in SID
Number of trades per quarter
From mid-June 2018 to end of Q1 2022 151 million trades have occurred through SIDC.
Period | Number of trades |
---|---|
Mid-June to September 2018 | 3.5 million |
October to December 2018 | 4.3 million |
January to March 2019 | 4.8 million |
April to June 2019 | 5.8 million |
July to September 2019 | 5.6 million |
October to December 2019 | 7.2 million |
January to March 2020 | 8.3 million |
April to June 2020 | 9.3 million |
July to September 2020 | 10.8 million |
October to December 2020 | 11.9 million |
January to March 2021 | 12.7 million |
April to June 2021 | 14.9 million |
July to September 2021 | 15.4 million |
October to December 2021 | 18.0 million |
January to March 2022 | 18.5 million |
April to June 2022 | 20.0 million |
July to September 2022 | 20.2 million |
Stakeholder reports
To give stakeholders a comprehensive overview of the benefits SIDC delivers, the project has prepared reports featuring several indicators including amongst others traded volumes, average prices, cross-border capacity utilisation, share of cross-bidding zone trades in overall volumes and availability of the SIDC platform. These reports cover the operational period since beginning of January 2019.
- For the period January 2019 until end of 2020 half-yearly reports are available.
- As of April 2021 the reports are available on a monthly basis.
- In the Q3/Q4 2020 report some indicators are calculated until end of March 2021.
2023 - Jan
2022 - Jan - Feb - Mar - Apr - May - Jun - Jul - Aug - Sept - Oct - Nov - Dec
2021 - Apr - May - Jun - Jul - Aug - Sept - Oct - Nov - Dec
2020 - Q1/Q2 report - Q3/Q4 report
2019 - Q1/Q2 report - Q3/Q4 report
Algorithm monitoring
Pursuant to Article 8 of Annex I of ACER decision 04/2020 on the Algorithm methodology, SIDC has developed algorithm monitoring reports, which will be generated on a monthly basis. These reports contain amongst others key indicators on the performance of the algorithm, prices, matched orders and volumes and the usage of SIDC products.
2023 - Jan
2022 - Jan - Feb - Mar - Apr - May - Jun - Jul - Aug - Sept - Oct - Nov - Dec
2021 - May - Jun - Jul - Aug - Sept - Oct - Nov - Dec
Future development
The development of SIDC is a priority to all parties (NEMOs and TSO) involved in the project.
Here we list future developments to expand and improve the efficiency of the SIDC.
Plans are underway to integrate cross-zonal capacity pricing through intraday auction in line with ACER’s decision on establishing a single methodology for pricing intraday cross-zonal capacity.
SIDC is working on the implementation of cross-product matching into the system. This will enable the matching of different products with one another (for example 15 min with 60 min orders).
Plans are underway to implement the functionality to address losses on HVDC cables.
SIDC has initiated the R&D phase for the implementation of flow-based allocation in continuous trading.
Resources Available
- 19th MESC Slides
- 18th MESC Slides
- Q&A
- Florence Forum Slides {: target=”_blank”}
Steering Committee Minutes
Previous Steering Committee Minutes
- 24 November 2021 SIDC IDSC
- 27 October 2021 SIDC IDSC
- 30 September 2021 SIDC IDSC
- 26 August 2021 SIDC IDSC
- 15 July 2021 SIDC IDSC
- 16 June 2021 SIDC IDSC
- 11 May 2021 SIDC IDSC
- 14 April 2021 SIDC IDSC
- 11 March 2021 SIDC IDSC
- 9 February 2021 SIDC IDSC
- 3 December 2020 SIDC IDSC
- 10 November 2020 SIDC IDSC
- 6 October 2020 SIDC IDSC
- 9 September 2020 SIDC IDSC
- 5 August 2020 SIDC IDSC
- 7 July 2020 SIDC IDSC
- 9 June 2020 SIDC IDSC
- 5 May 2020 SIDC IDSC
- 1 April 2020 SIDC IDSC
- 3 March 2020 SIDC IDSC
- 29 January 2020 SIDC IDSC
- 12 December 2019 SIDC IDSC
- 12 September 2019 SIDC IDSC
Market Involvement
A User Group was convened with Market Parties (MPs) as an interface between the XBID Project and the Market. Following the successful XBID Go-Live it is agreed that the Market European Stakeholder Group (MESC) is the primary interface with MPs.
- 4th Wave Go-Live Single Intraday Coupling (SIDC) Pre-launch Event
- 3rd Wave Pre-Launch Event Presentations
- 2nd Wave Pre-Launch Event Presentations
- 1st Go-Live Pre-Launch Event Presentations
Previous Market Involvement documents
Press Releases
- 2022-11-30 - Successful fourth wave go-live
- 2022-09-30 - Expansion of 15-minute products to Bulgaria
- 2021-10-05 - Successful Local Implementation Project 14 Go-Live
- 2021-09-14 - Local Implementation Project 14 Go-Live confirmation
- 2021 03 25 - Revised Local Implementation Project 14 Go-Live
Previous Press Releases
- 2020 11 20 - Expansion of 30 and 15 minute products and Revised Local Implementation Project 14 Go-Live
- 2020-04-08 - NEMOs and TSOs are safeguarding the Day-Ahead and Intraday market coupling
- 2019-11-08 - Date confirmation of the 2nd wave go-live
- 2019-06-12 - XBID – 1st anniversary and announcement of 2nd Wave Go-Live
- 2019-04-02 - 2nd go live impact
- 2018-12-05 - 2nd Wave and Gate Opening Time
- 2018-09-06 – Successful Go-Live and End of Rollback
Information notes
Intraday Operational Agreement
Publication of Intraday Operational Agreement according to article 20.7 of the Algorithm Methodology
According to article 20.7 of the Algorithm Methodology as approved by ACER all NEMOs shall in coordination with TSOs publish, by 1 September 2020, and then continuously update the relevant parts of the following documents:
- operational contracts;
- operational procedures;
- change control procedures;
- monitoring procedures;
- fallback procedures; and
- back-up procedures.
Based on this regulatory requirement SIDC parties publish these documents for transparency purposes. Any consultation or use of these documents is at your own risk and responsibility and the parties to the SIDC cooperation cannot be held liable for any damage incurred as a result of the use of these documents. Furthermore, these documents can only be used or quoted provided prior written consent is obtained of the parties to the SIDC cooperation. No rights or obligations can be derived from these documents. The publication of these documents does not affect any (intellectual) property right pertaining to these documents or to the information contained therein. The publication of these documents does not preclude the rights of the parties to the SIDC cooperation to amend, replace or suppress the documents.
Please note that for reasons of confidentiality certain parts of the content of the documents have been blackened out or have not been published (e.g. Exhibit 2, 13, 15 of the IDOA).
Intraday Operational Agreement (IDOA)
Exhibit 6: Operational Procedure see detailed list below
Exhibit 8: List of Parties participating in the Initial Go-Live
Exhibit 17: Includes XBID_JOINT_NOR_03 and XBID_JOINT_NOR_04 included also below under the procedures overview
Exhibit 6: Operational Procedures
XBID_JOINT_NOR_02 Distribution of allocation information (redacted)
XBID_JOINT_BUP_02 Distribution of allocation information (redacted)
XBID_JOINT_EXC_01 Closing and re-opening of an Interconnector(s)
XBID_JOINT_OTF_06 Planned Maintenance Window Local Shipper System
SIDC_JOINT_OTF_07 Algorithm Monitoring Procedure included under Exhibit 18
TSO Cooperation Agreement for Single Intraday coupling (TCID)
APPENDIX D - TSO-only operational procedures - see below