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The Energy Identification Code (EIC) is a 16-character identifier ( code) used in Europe to uniquely identify market participants and energy resources (entities and objects) related to the electricity and gas sector.
EIC codes are used for:
The EIC codes are used — among others — in platforms that support EU regulations on transparency and integrity:
The scheme is supported by a central issuing office (CIO), function exercised by ENTSO-E for both the electricity and the gas sectors) and ENTSO-E-authorised local issuing offices (LIOs) in Europe.
On 2021-12-16, IANA registered the urn:eic URN namespace, [3] so now EIC can be used in making semantic triples of Common Information Model (electricity) data or other energy Linked Open Data.