France - Switzerland interconnection

For exports and imports

  • Yearly, monthly, daily capacities are offered in explicit auctions. CASC operates the allocation on behalf of RTE and Swissgrid.
  • Intraday capacities are currently offered via an improved prorata mechanism and then from January 18th 2012 (delivery date) via continuous explicit auctions. The capacity allocation plateform Intraday Capacity Service will operate allocations on behalf of RTE and Swissgrid. For intraday allocations, capacities will be free and will have to be used in their full amount.
For this interconnection,
RTE therefore publishes the following data every day and for each hourly interval :
Data Availability
Specifications of Yearly, Monthly, Daily auctions Before each auction
Yearly, Monthly, Daily auctions results After each auction
Nominations of Yearly, Monthly, Daily schedules From D-1 19:30
Currently :
Capacities available for Intra day trade
D-1 20:30 and 15mn before each gate
From January 18th 2012 (delivery date):
Initial available capacity for intraday in the direction France > Switzerland and in the direction of Switzerland > France
The Intraday Capacity Service website shows intraday capacities updated in real time for both directions.
D-1 21:05
From January 18th 2012 (delivery date):
Intraday allocations results

The website https://www.intraday-capacity.com shows intraday available and allocated capacity updated in real time for both directions.
D for every hour

In addition to this, a certain visibility is offered regarding the monthly and weekly forecasts of NTC.

Finally, records of all the data published are available.