Datatypes

Energy Identification Code (EIC)

ID eu_eic

DatatypeNot PIIidentifierDraft

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Energy Identification Code, the 16-character code of the European electricity and gas sector for market participants, areas, metering points and other objects. It has a 2-character code of the issuing office, an object type letter, twelve characters for the object and a check character. Digits, capital letters and hyphens are used.

Categories
Industry
Countries
European Union
Languages
English
python-stdnum
stdnum.eu.eic
Quality
95/100 · missing: translation
Metacrafter rules
no detection rule yet
Supported by tools
DataPrep, python-stdnum

Regular expression

^\d{2}[A-Z][0-9A-Z-]{12}[0-9A-Z]$

Python re syntax.

Examples

ValueDescription
59Z000000001534UReal-world value published online
19XENIONENERGIAMReal-world value published online
59Z000000001534U7 invalidOne character too many

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