EPEX SPOT power trading results of April 2019
Amsterdam / Bern / Brussels / Leipzig / London / Paris / Vienna, 03 May 2019. In April 2019, a total volume of 48.2 TWh was traded on EPEX SPOT’s Day-Ahead and Intraday power markets (April 2018: 48.7 TWh).
Day-Ahead markets
In April 2019, power trading on the Day-Ahead markets on EPEX SPOT accounted for 40,422,749 MWh (April 2018: 41,356,768 MWh).
Prices in Central Western Europe, connected within the Multiregional Coupling, converged 54% of the time (April 2018: 38%).
Intraday markets
On the EPEX SPOT Intraday markets, a total volume of 7,737,339 MWh was traded in April 2019 (April 2018: 7,374,064 MWh). Continuous trading in Belgium grew by 67.9% and reached a new record of 164,983 MWh. A further record was registered on the Dutch Intraday market with 240,440 MWh traded, which represents a year-on-year growth of 57.9%. Healthy growth rates were registered for Austrian 15 minute products and for French 60 minute products, with respectively 37.0% and 36.5% of increase in traded volumes.
In April, cross-border trades matched between EPEX SPOT members represented 16.2% of the total continuous intraday volume. 15 minute contracts represented 12.4% of the volume traded on the German, Austrian, Swiss, Dutch and Belgian continuous Intraday markets.
More details on volumes and prices are available in the enclosed report below.
New members
In April, EPEX SPOT welcomed Virtual Global Trading AG as new members to the Exchange. TenneT TSO GmbH was newly admitted to the Local Flexibility Market launched in February.
- 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 2018, its 289 members traded 567 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.
