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Leading service provider for Transmission System Operators (TSOs) in the European electricity market.

Through our single trading platform we auction cross-border transmission capacity rights. We also provide accounting (clearing and settlement), contracting, reporting, project support and IT services.

 

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On behalf of TSOs, we organize long and short-term auctions of transmission capacity rights.

We offer the following products: yearly, seasonal, quarterly, monthly, weekly, daily and intraday.

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    Registered market participants
  • 26k+
    Auctions held annually
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  • 80+
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  • 50
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Latest market messages

Follow-up on public consultation of Swiss DA rules – Block bids documentation

by JAO

Following the public consultations held between the 27th October and 26th November 2025 on the “Rules for daily capacity allocation on Swiss borders”, and the publication of the consultation report on the 8th December 2025, we would like – further to requests received – to share a documentation prepared by our IT provider, which explains the integration of the block bids into the existing auction framework in more detail and includes illustrative examples.

Market Participants are invited to review the document and submit their feedback by 23/01/2026 17:00 CET, via email to the following address: consultation@jao.eu

JAO, on behalf of the TSOs

UPDATE - Urgent Market Update: Cancellation of CH<>DE for Market Period 13/01/2026

by JAO

The CH-DE and DE-CH Daily Auction for market period 13/01/2026 with the auction ID below have been cancelled.

CH-DE-D-DAILYPRODU-260113-02

DE-CH-D-DAILYPRODU-260113-02

A second round will be not run due to allocation constraints not available.

Urgent Market Update: Cancellation of CH<>DE for Market Period 13/01/2026

by JAO

The CH-DE and DE-CH Daily Auction for market period 13/01/2026 with the auction ID below have been cancelled.

CH-DE-D-DAILYPRODU-260113-01

DE-CH-D-DAILYPRODU-260113-01

A second round will be scheduled as soon as possible

Capacity Curtailment on the AT-IT border for delivery period 13-01-2026

by JAO

1. TSO(s)*:

TERNA, RTE, APG, SWISSIGRID, ELES

2. Identification of affected Long Term Transmission Rights:

AT-IT

3. Triggering event:

Curtailment to ensure operation remains within Operational Security Limits

4. Affected volume in MW / hour for each concerned period:

13-01-2026 07:00 - 08:00 224 MW

13-01-2026 08:00 - 09:00 224 MW

13-01-2026 09:00 - 10:00 224 MW

13-01-2026 10:00 - 11:00 224 MW

13-01-2026 11:00 - 12:00 224 MW

13-01-2026 15:00 - 16:00 224 MW

13-01-2026 16:00 - 17:00 224 MW

13-01-2026 17:00 - 18:00 224 MW

13-01-2026 18:00 - 19:00 224 MW

13-01-2026 19:00 - 20:00 224 MW

13-01-2026 20:00 - 21:00 224 MW

13-01-2026 21:00 - 22:00 224 MW

13-01-2026 22:00 - 23:00 224 MW

13-01-2026 23:00 - 24:00 224 MW

5. Amount of LTTR remaining after curtailment:

13-01-2026 07:00 - 08:00 172 MW

13-01-2026 08:00 - 09:00 172 MW

13-01-2026 09:00 - 10:00 158 MW

13-01-2026 10:00 - 11:00 158 MW

13-01-2026 11:00 - 12:00 158 MW

13-01-2026 15:00 - 16:00 172 MW

13-01-2026 16:00 - 17:00 172 MW

13-01-2026 17:00 - 18:00 172 MW

13-01-2026 18:00 - 19:00 195 MW

13-01-2026 19:00 - 20:00 195 MW

13-01-2026 20:00 - 21:00 195 MW

13-01-2026 21:00 - 22:00 177 MW

13-01-2026 22:00 - 23:00 177 MW

13-01-2026 23:00 - 24:00 158 MW

6. Information on exact operational security limit(s) that are expected to be violated in the absence of curtailment*:

Expected violation of operational security limits of physical transmission assets

7. Why alternative measures are not sufficient to avoid the expected violation of operational security limit(s)*?

During the CC process, all the remedial actions provided by the TSOs are already considered by the CCC in the calculation

Capacity Curtailment on the SI-IT border for delivery period 13-01-2026

by JAO

1. TSO(s)*:

TERNA, RTE, APG, SWISSIGRID, ELES

2. Identification of affected Long Term Transmission Rights:

SI-IT

3. Triggering event:

Curtailment to ensure operation remains within Operational Security Limits

4. Affected volume in MW / hour for each concerned period:

13-01-2026 23:00 - 24:00 310 MW

5. Amount of LTTR remaining after curtailment:

13-01-2026 23:00 - 24:00 265 MW

6. Information on exact operational security limit(s) that are expected to be violated in the absence of curtailment*:

Expected violation of operational security limits of physical transmission assets

7. Why alternative measures are not sufficient to avoid the expected violation of operational security limit(s)*?

During the CC process, all the remedial actions provided by the TSOs are already considered by the CCC in the calculation

RESOLVED- Temporary Unavailability of Auction Details on the Website

by JAO

Please be informed that, due to a technical issue, the auction details and specifications which were not available/visible on our website. The data is now visible now !

We appreciate your understanding.

Rights Documents for BG<>RS daily

by JAO

Please consider the latest version of the Programming Authorization documents once the auction(s) RS-BG-D-DAILYPRODU-260112-02 & BG-RS-D-DAILYPRODU-260112-02 is/ are concluded.

Kind regards,

JAO Operations

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JAO has successfully implemented internationally recognized management systems and is now officially certified for ISO/IEC 27001:2022 – the global standard for Information Security Management Systems and for ISO 9001 – the international standard for Quality Management Systems. 

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We started as a shared auction platform for transmission capacity across Central Western Europe in 2008. Over time, we became the operator of the Single Allocation Platform and therefore the leading trading platform for European Transmission System Operators.

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