Market Coupling Contract
Trading procedure: Daily Auction
Trading days: Year-round
Type
- EPEX SPOT France to Germany
- EPEX SPOT Germany to France
- EPEX SPOT France to Belgium
- EPEX SPOT Germany to Netherlands
Tradable Contracts (Expiries)
- 1 hour of the day
- Hour 01: the period between midnight and 1.00 am
- Hour 02: the period between 1.00 am and 2.00 am, and so on and so forth
- Hour 24: the period between 11.00 pm and midnight
Order Book opening: Daily at 9:30
Order Book closes: Daily at : at 11:15
Clearing and Settlement:
Trade information transmitted by EPEX SPOT SE to the Central Counterparty, ECC AG for Settlement and Delivery of the Contracts.
Delivery procedure:
Nomination by ECC to TSOs on the corresponding electrical borders of the contracts:
- RTE-AMPRION and RTE-EnBW for EPEX SPOT France to Germany
- AMPRION -RTE and EnBW-RTE for EPEX SPOT Germany to France
- RTE-ELIA for EPEX SPOT France to Belgium
- AMPRION -TENNET TSO BV and TENNET TSO GmbH -TENNET TSO BV for Germany to the Netherlands
Admissible Orders
Independent Price Orders and Single-Contract Orders only.
On the day of the switch from summer time to winter time, the hour no. 3 is considered twice automatically for the purposes of pricing. On the day of the switch from winter time to summer time, the hour no. 3 cannot be traded.
Quantity characteristics
- Whole MW on the corresponding electrical borders of the contracts:
- RTE-AMPRION and RTE-EnBW for EPEX SPOT France to Germany ;
- AMPRION -RTE and EnBW-RTE for EPEX SPOT Germany to France ;
- RTE-ELIA for EPEX SPOT France to Belgium.
- 0,1 MW on the corresponding electrical borders of the contracts:
- AMPRION -TENNET TSO BV and TENNET TSO GmbH -TENNET TSO BV for Germany to the Netherlands.