Amsterdam / Bern / Brussels / Leipzig / London / Paris / Vienna, 01. February 2019. In January 2019, a total volume of 50.5 TWh was traded on EPEX SPOT’s Day-Ahead and Intraday power markets (January 2018: 48.8 TWh).
Day-Ahead markets
In January 2019, power trading on the Day-Ahead markets on EPEX SPOT accounted for 43,588,335 MWh (January 2018: 42,155,895 MWh) and thus grew by 3.4%.
Prices in Central Western Europe, connected within the Multiregional Coupling, converged 23% of the time (January 2018: 34%).
Intraday markets
On the EPEX SPOT Intraday markets, a total volume of 6,909,513 MWh was traded in January 2019 (January 2018: 6,611,855 MWh), which represents a year-on-year growth rate of 4.5%. The French Intraday market displayed exceptional growth of 69% and reached 582,147 MWh, driven by increased activities on the hourly continuous market. Intraday trading in Great Britain grew by 8.3%
In January, cross-border trades matched between EPEX SPOT members represented 10,4% of the total continuous intraday volume. 15 minute contracts represented 11.9% 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 report below.
New members
In January, EPEX SPOT welcomed NPOWER LIMITED 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. 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.
EPEX SPOT - Monthly figures report for January 2019
