The FCR Cooperation grew from a German-Swiss tender to nine countries in eleven years

FCR Cooperation members by date of first joint auction, March 2012 to present

Member of the joint FCR auction Market reform
Daily auctions
replace weekly tenders
Six 4-hour blocks
replace the daily product
Germany
March 2012
Switzerland
March 2012
Netherlands
January 2014
Austria
April 2015
Belgium
August 2016
France
January 2017
Denmark (west)
January 2021
Slovenia
January 2021
Czechia
March 2023
20122014201620182020202220242026

Source: regelleistung.net, TSO announcements, Modo Energy

Note: bars start at each TSO's first joint FCR auction. Germany and Switzerland held the first joint weekly tender on 6 March 2012. Auctions moved from weekly to daily in July 2019, and to six 4-hour blocks per day in July 2020.

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