Amsterdam / Bern / Brussels / Leipzig / London / Paris / Vienna, 4 April 2017. In March 2017, a total volume of 47.9 TWh was traded on EPEX SPOT’s Day-Ahead and Intraday power markets (March 2016: 48.0 TWh).
Day-Ahead markets
In March 2017, power trading on the Day-Ahead markets on EPEX SPOT accounted for 41,759,248 MWh (March 2016: 43,004,541 MWh). The traded volumes on the UK half-hour auction topped last month’s record and reached 273,350 MWh.
Prices in Central Western Europe, connected within the Multiregional Coupling, converged 46% of the time (March 2016: 44%).
Intraday markets
On the EPEX SPOT Intraday markets, a total volume of 6,157,854 MWh was traded in March 2017 (March 2016: 5,045,399 MWh). Five markets have reached new records in Intraday trading: The German and Austrian continuous market, the German 15-minute auction as well as the Belgian and Dutch Intraday markets.
In March, cross-border trades represented 20.8% of the total continuous intraday volume in Germany, France, Netherlands, Belgium, Austria and Switzerland. 15-minute contracts represented 11.2% of the volume traded on the German, Austrian and Swiss continuous intraday markets.
On 28 March 2017, EPEX SPOT successfully introduced 30-minute continuous Intraday trading in France, Germany and Switzerland, with 540 MWh, 1,191 MWh and 68,3 MWh traded respectively during the last 4 days of March 2017.
New members
In March, EPEX SPOT welcomed E.ON Energie Deutschland GmbH as new member to the exchange.
- ENDS
The European Power Exchange EPEX SPOT SE and its affiliates operate physical short-term electricity markets in Central Western Europe and the United Kingdom. The creation of a pan-European power market is what defines EPEX SPOT’s mission. In 2016, its 278 mem-bers traded 529 TWh – a third of the domestic consumption in the eight countries covered. 49% of its equity is held by HGRT, a holding of transmission system operators. EPEX SPOT is part of EEX Group. For more information, please visit www.epexspot.com.
