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EEX Trading Results And New Admissions In January - New Record Volume On The Electricity Derivatives Market Of 105,6 TWh

Date 03/02/2006

In January 2006, the European Energy Exchange (EEX) saw a total volume in electricity trading of 113,3 TWh.

Of this amount, 7,776,681 MWh were traded on the electricity Spot Market. On the electricity Spot Market, base load (Phelix Base Month) was worth 65.54 Euro/MWh in the monthly average and peak load (Phelix Peak Month) 97.34 Euro/MWh.

In January the volume in electricity derivatives was 105,6 TWh. The Derivatives Mar-ket“s volume includes 32.6 TWh from OTC Clearing. On January 31, 2006 the Open In-terest was 153.8 TWh. On January 31, 2006 the price for base load in Germany for the year 2007 was determined at 53.70 Euro/MWh and for peak load in Germany for the year 2007 at 75.35 Euro/MWh.

In January, 717,718 EU Allowances were traded on the EEX Spot Market. During this period the settlement prices ranged between 21.75 Euro/EUA and 26.23 Euro/EUA.

On the EEX Derivatives Market for EU Allowances launched October 4, 2005 the vol-ume traded was 110,000 EU Allowances. On January 31, 2006 the contract price for the year 2006 was determined at 26.69 Euro/EUA, the contract price for the year 2008 was 24.74 Euro/EUA.

135 companies from 17 countries are active at the European Energy Exchange. Elnord S.A. from Poland was admitted to the Spot Market in January. EOS Trading S.A., Swit-zerland, Tullett Prebon (Securities) Limited, Great Britain and Holding Slovenske Elek-trarne d.o.o, Slovenia were admitted to the Derivatives Market.