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EPEX SPOT: Power Trading Results In November 2013 - French Intraday Displays Second Best Volume Ever

Date 03/12/2013

In November 2013, a total volume of 29.0 TWh was traded on EPEX SPOT’s Day-Ahead and Intraday markets (November 2012: 29.2 TWh). The French Intraday market displayed particularly good results. 317,089 MWh were traded on the French Intraday in November, which is the second best result ever.

Day-Ahead markets
In November 2013, power trading on the Day-Ahead auctions on EPEX SPOT accounted for a total of 27,054,989 MWh (November 2012: 27,685,313 MWh) and can be broken down as follows:

Areas

Monthly volume

MWh

Monthly volume – previous year
MWh

Price – monthly average
(Base / Peak*)
Euro/MWh

 

DE/AT

20,049,565

21,079,029

39.22 / 53.80

 

FR

5,492,174

5,126,763

49.11 / 62.03

 

CH

1,513,250

1,479,521

49.33 / 61.94

 

ELIX – European Electricity Index

42.80 / 57.71

* Peak excl. weekend

Prices within the French and the German market, both coupled with the Benelux markets within Central Western Europe (CWE), converged 35% of the time.

Intraday markets
On the EPEX SPOT Intraday markets , a total volume of 1,949,524 MWh was traded in November 2013 (November 2012: 1,480,388 MWh).

Areas

Monthly volume

MWh

Monthly volume – previous year

MWh

DE/AT

1,552,517

1,278,786

FR

317,089

201,602

CH

79,918

0*

* Swiss market launched in June 2013

In November, cross-border trades represented 19.7% of the total Intraday volume. Volume in 15-Minute contracts amounted to 189,720 MWh. In November, they represented 11.9% of the volume traded on the German and Swiss Intraday markets.