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Nordic Intraday markets get off to a sound start

New record on Belgian Intraday

Amsterdam / Bern / Brussels / Leipzig / London / Paris / Vienna, 03 June 2020. In May 2020, a total volume of 50.7 TWh was traded on EPEX SPOT’s Day-Ahead and Intraday power markets (May 2019: 49.7 TWh).

Day-Ahead markets

In May 2020, power trading on the Day-Ahead markets on EPEX SPOT accounted for 42,294,399 MWh (May 2019: 42,195,715 MWh).

Prices in Central Western Europe, connected within the Multiregional Coupling, converged 37% of the time (May 2019: 63%).

Intraday markets

On the EPEX SPOT Intraday markets, a total volume of 8,377,959 MWh was traded in May 2020 (May 2019: 7,489,654 MWh). The Nordic Intraday markets were launched on 25 May and reached a combined 18,771 MWh by the end of the month. A new monthly record was registered on the Belgian Intraday, with 255,975 MWh traded, and on the GB Intraday auctions, with a total of 132,119 MWh. The Swiss Intraday auctions grew by 145% on year, reaching a combined 99,383 MWh.

In May, cross-border trades matched between EPEX SPOT members represented 19.7% of the total continuous Intraday volume. 15 minute contracts represented 15.5% 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.