In August, the Derivatives Market volume was 21.8 TWh. Of this amount, 12.0 TWh were traded in yearly futures, 6.4 TWh in quarterly futures and 3.3 TWh in monthly fu-tures. The Derivatives Market´s volume includes 10.4 TWh from OTC Clearing. The Open Interest on August 31, 2005 was 125.4 TWh in futures and 7.5 TWh in options.
The EU Allowance´s Market volume was 362.871, including 27.500 from OTC Clearing newly introduced on August 4. On August 19, the total number of Allowances traded exceeded the one million.
On the Spot Market, base load was worth 38.16 Euro/MWh in the monthly average and peak load 49.09 Euro/MWh. On the Derivatives Market to date August 31, 2005, the settlement price for base load 2006 was determined at 43.86 Euro/MWh and for peak load at 60.01 Euro/MWh.
128 companies from 16 countries are active at the European Energy Exchange. There were no admissions or removals in August.
