EEX Group reports its July monthly volumes with the following developments:
- In July, traded volumes on the EEX Group's Global Power markets increased by 29% year-on-year to 1,162.2 TWh. In Europe, both the Power Spot markets, operated by EPEX SPOT, and the Power Derivatives market have grown, by 24% YoY to 89.8 TWh, and 37% YoY to 857.4 TWh, respectively.
- Several of the EPEX SPOT markets reached new monthly record volumes, including the German, Austrian, Swiss, Dutch, Belgian, Danish and Nordic Intraday markets, as well as the Polish Day-Ahead market.
- On the European Power Derivatives markets, EEX recorded strong increase in traded volume across several markets, including the Irish Power Futures, which reached a new monthly record volume and increased by 320% YoY. Further significant increases were recorded in the Austrian (+102%), Greek (+85%) and French (+68%) Power Futures. The German Power Futures market has expanded by 29% YoY, which accounts for a growth of over 120 TWh.
- The EEX Nordic Power Futures continued their strong growth trend with volumes rising by 337% Year-on-Year. The EEX System Price Open Interest* has further increased (+176% YoY).
- The Japanese Power Futures market expanded further in July, with a 58% Year-on-Year growth, reaching 16.3 TWh.
- Trading on the EEX Group Natural Gas markets totalled 691.9 TWh (-10% YoY). Despite the overall trend, strong annual growth was recorded in several national markets, including the UK NBP Gas Futures (+537% YoY), while traded volume on the Italian PSV Gas Futures doubled (+100% YoY), The Baltic-Finnish Gas Futures market continued the growth trajectory as seen over the past few months (+452% YoY; over +10,000% MoM). The Spanish PVB Gas Spot market also continued on the upward path with another significant expansion (+1213% YoY). On the North American natural gas markets, operated by Nodal, natural gas traded volumes increased by 162% Year-on-Year to 26.1 TWh.
- The volume traded on the Group's Guarantees of Origin (GO) markets increased by 25% YoY to 11.3 TWh. This development was supported by EEX GO Futures, which rose by 42% Year-on-Year to 7.1 TWh traded.
Please find the full volume report here.
Please find the full press release in English and German in the document below.
*The Open Interest (OI) is the total number of unsettled derivatives contracts (open positions in futures and options) in a given market, indicating the interest level and liquidity of this market. The calculation of the Open Interest at EEX is considering the proprietary accounts in net terms.
EEX Group builds secure, successful and sustainable commodity markets worldwide – together with its customers. The group offers trading in power, natural gas, environmental products, freight and agriculturals as well as subsequent clearing and registry services, connecting a network of more than 1,000 trading participants. EEX Group consists of European Energy Exchange (EEX), EPEX SPOT, Power Exchange Central Europe (PXE) and Nodal Exchange as well as the software companies KB Tech and Lacima. Clearing is provided by EEX Group’s clearing houses European Commodity Clearing (ECC) and Nodal Clear. EEX Group is part of Deutsche Börse Group.
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