Paris / Leipzig / Bern / Vienna, 2 April 2015. In March 2015, a total volume of 36.3 TWh was traded on EPEX SPOT’s Day-Ahead and Intraday power markets (March 2014: 33.4 TWh). All Intraday market markets showed particular strong results and displayed records across all countries and segments. At the same time, the French Day-Ahead market confirmed its strong trend with a 31% year-on-year growth in March.
Day-Ahead markets
In March 2015, power trading on the Day-Ahead auctions on EPEX SPOT accounted for a total of 32,581,363 MWh (March 2014: 30,995,070 MWh) and can be broken down as follows:
Intraday markets
On the EPEX SPOT Intraday markets, a total volume of 3,682,775 MWh was traded in March 2015 (March 2014: 2,416,409 MWh). This is a new all-time high and is an increase of 8.2% over the last record from January 2015 (3,401,766 MWh). All Intraday market segments broke previous peak values.
In March, cross-border trades represented 10.4% of the total continuous Intraday volume. The volume in continuously traded 15-minute contracts reached 374,862 MWh. In March, they represented 14.3% of the volume traded on the German and Swiss continuous Intraday markets.
The European Power Exchange EPEX SPOT SE operates the power spot markets for Germany, France, Austria and Switzerland (Day-Ahead and Intraday). Together these countries account for more than one third of the European power consumption. EPEX SPOT also acts as market operating service provider for the Hungarian Power Exchange HUPX and operates the coupling between the Czech, the Slovak, the Hungarian and the Romanian markets on behalf of the local Exchanges. It is a European company (Societas Europaea) based in Paris with branches in Leipzig, Bern and Vienna. Over 220 companies from Europe are active on EPEX SPOT. 382 TWh have been traded on EPEX SPOTs markets in 2014.