EEX: 2.11 Million MWh On Integrated Spot And Futures Market In January - Voralberger Kraftwerke New Spot Market Trading Participants

EEX European Energy Exchange released its turnover figures for the month of January on Monday. A total of 2.11 million MWh were traded on the integrated EEX spot and futures market last month (December 2001: 4 million MWh). Spot market turnover, with 1.1 million MWh traded, was 24 percent higher than the month before (December 2001: 894,157 MWh); compared with January last year, trading volume increased by more than 100 percent (January 2001: 529,785 MWh).

The January total for the spot market comprises 256,279 MWh traded in single hours and 852,996 MWh in blocks, 637,944 MWh in baseload blocks and 215,052 MWh in peakload blocks.

In the futures market, volume of 1.01 million MWh was traded in January. Some 3 million MWh were traded the month before. The total futures market volume comprised 563,712 MWh in trading of monthly futures, some 229,000 MWh in quarterly futures and 219,000 MWh in annual futures.

In January, EEX admitted Voralberger Kraftwerke AG to trading in the spot market. It is the fourth Austrian participant. Thus, there are now 60 companies from eight countries trading in the integrated spot and futures market.