Half-hour auction in Great Britain displays 32.5% growth year-on-year
Amsterdam / Bern / Brussels / Leipzig / London / Paris / Vienna, 01 August 2018. In July 2018, a total volume of 45.5 TWh was traded on EPEX SPOT’s Day-Ahead and Intraday power markets (July 2017: 44.1 TWh).
Day-Ahead markets
In July 2018, power trading on the Day-Ahead markets on EPEX SPOT accounted for 39,403,989 MWh (July 2017: 38,644,530 MWh). The half-hour auction in Great Britain displayed a year-on-year growth of 32.5%.
Prices in Central Western Europe, connected within the Multiregional Coupling, converged 64% of the time (July 2017: 61%).
Intraday markets
On the EPEX SPOT Intraday markets, a total volume of 6,140,712 MWh was traded in July 2018 (July 2017: 5,405,967 MWh). The French and UK Intraday markets grew by 50.0% and 20.1% respectively.
In July, cross-border trades matched between EPEX SPOT members represented 18% of the total continuous intraday volume. 15-minute contracts represented 12.3% of the volume traded on the German, Austrian, Swiss, Dutch and Belgian continuous Intraday markets.
New members
In July, EPEX SPOT welcomed Agder Energi Vannkraft AS, Convex Energy GmbH and Groene Energie Administratie B.V. as new members 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. As part of EEX Group, a group of companies serving international commodity markets, EPEX SPOT is committed to the creation of a pan-European power market. In the first half of 2018, 284 TWh have been traded on EPEX SPOT markets. In 2017, its 285 members traded 535 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. For more information, please visit www.epexspot.com.
EPEX SPOT – Monthly Figures Report for July 2018
