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EPEX SPOT Power Trading Results Of October 2016

Date 08/11/2016

In October 2016, a total volume of 42,6 TWh was traded on EPEX SPOT’s Day-Ahead and Intraday power markets (October 2015: 47,2 TWh).

Day-Ahead markets
In October 2016, power trading on the Day-Ahead markets on EPEX SPOT (including APX) accounted for a total of 37,467,681 MWh (October 2015: 42,525,225 MWh).
Prices in Central Western Europe, connected within the Multiregional Coupling, converged 13% of the time (October 2015: 26%).

Intraday markets
On the EPEX SPOT Intraday markets (including APX), a total volume of 5,179,046 MWh was traded in October 2016 (October 2015: 4,706,846 MWh).
In October, cross-border trades represented 19% of the total continuous Intraday volume in Germany, France, Netherlands, Belgium, Austria and Switzerland. 15-minute contracts represented 12% of the volume traded on the German, Austrian and Swiss continuous Intraday markets.

New members
In October, EPEX SPOT welcomed Volantis Energy Ltd as new member to the exchange.

Please find further details on the volumes and prices below:

Volumes

Power Spot Volumes
 
 

Monthly
volume


MWh

Monthly
volume –
previous year

MWh

Total

42,646,726

47,232,071

Day-Ahead

37,467,681

42,525,225

  Day-Ahead DE/AT/LU

18,531,010

20,989,567

  Day-Ahead FR

9,199,957

9,579,174

  Day-Ahead UK total

  - Day-Ahead Auction UK

  - Half-Hour 15:30 auction UK

2,806,450

2,610,036

196,414

4,332,919

4,160,868

172,051

  Day-Ahead NL

2,708,496

3,357,482

  Day-Ahead BE

2,266,488

2,080,994

  Day-Ahead CH

1,955,281

2,185,089

Intraday

5,179,045

4,706,846

  Intraday DE/AT total

  - hourly continuous DE

  - 15-min continuous

  - 15-min call auction DE 

  - hourly continuous AT

  - 15-min continuous AT

3,345,747

2,504,561

296,086

375,250

156,251

13,599

3,010,160

2,252,405

297,169

362,236

92,924

5,426*

  Intraday FR

384,342

367,547

  Continuous UK

1,106,294

1,085,334

  Intraday NL

89,361

42,597

  Intraday BE

57,075

29,150

  Intraday CH total

  - hourly continuous

  - 15-min continuous

196,227

194,419

1,808

172,058

167,063

4,995

* Segment launched in October 2015

Prices and Indices

 

Price – monthly average
(Base / Peak**)

Price/MWh

Day-Ahead DE/AT – PHELIX

€37,13 / €44,18

Day-Ahead FR

€55,14 / €69,75

Day-Ahead UK

£49,27 / £59,35

Day-Ahead UK Half-Hour

£48,61 / £58,50

Day-Ahead NL

€38,00 / €45,34

Day-Ahead BE

€57,19 / €76,10

Day-Ahead CH – SWISSIX

€55,88 / €69,55

European Electricity Index – ELIX

€43,96 / €57,41***

Intraday DE/AT (hourly continuous)

€37,51 / €45,24

Intraday 15-minute call auction DE

€37,56 / €44,74

Intraday FR

€55,83 / €69,07

Intraday NL

€40,39 / €50,67

Intraday BE

€57,30 / €75,91

Intraday CH (hourly continuous)

€55,83 / €68,38

** Peak excl. weekend
*** calculated on the orders of DE/AT/LU, FR & CH under the assumption of unlimited transmission capacity between the markets