EIC Code Management

Search EIC code database by code or company name

Search 72,580+ EIC codes from ENTSO-E and AGSI/GIE.

At least one of 'code' or 'name' is required.

Parameter Details:

  • code: Exact 16-character EIC code (e.g., "21X000000001254A")
  • name: Company name with fuzzy matching (e.g., "Stadtwerke", "RWE", "Netze BW")
  • country: ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code - Common: DE (Germany), FR (France), NL (Netherlands), AT (Austria), CH (Switzerland), PL (Poland), CZ (Czech Republic)
  • sector: Filter by energy sector - "electricity" or "gas"
  • limit: Results limit (1-100, default: 10)

Use Cases:

  • Find valid operator codes for AGSI gas storage queries
  • Research market partners and grid operators
  • Validate EIC codes before API calls
post/api/eic-codes/search

Request

  • Base URL: https://api.cernion.de
  • URL: https://api.cernion.de/api/eic-codes/search
  • Auth: none declared

Query parameters

tokenstring

Optional Cernion MCP token as URL query parameter. If provided, it overrides CERNION_TOKEN for this request. Prefer Authorization Bearer header in production to reduce token exposure in URLs/logs.

Request body

codestring

Exact EIC code (16 characters, starts with 2 digits + X)

namestring

Company/operator name (fuzzy search, minimum 3 characters recommended)

country'AT' | 'BE' | 'BG' | 'CH' | 'CZ' | 'DE' | 'DK' | 'EE' | 'ES' | 'FI' | 'FR' | 'GB' | 'GR' | 'HR' | 'HU' | 'IE' | 'IT' | 'LT' | 'LU' | 'LV' | 'NL' | 'NO' | 'PL' | 'PT' | 'RO' | 'SE' | 'SI' | 'SK'

ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code

sector'electricity' | 'gas'

Energy sector filter

limitinteger

Maximum number of results

format'json' | 'csv' | 'xlsx' | 'xls'

Output format. "csv" and "xls"/"xlsx" trigger a file download.

tokenstring

Optional Cernion MCP token for this request. Overrides CERNION_TOKEN when provided.

Example request

{
  "code": "21X000000001254A",
  "name": "Stadtwerke München",
  "country": "DE",
  "sector": "electricity"
}

Response

Search results with matching EIC codes

Changes

No recorded changes to this operation across all 2 revisions of this API.