European Power Exchange: Power Trading Results In January 2013

In January 2013, a total volume of 28.2 TWh was traded on EPEX SPOT’s Day-Ahead and Intraday markets (January 2012: 29.6 TWh).

Day-Ahead markets

In January 2013, power trading on the Day-Ahead auctions on EPEX SPOT accounted for a total of 26,571,892 MWh (January 2012: 27,805,694 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	19,883,862	21,578,426	43.31 / 55.74
FR	5,163,871	4,944,084	50.64 / 60.97
CH	1,524,159	1,283,184	53.41 / 62.79
ELIX – European Electricity Index			45.28 / 57.12

* Peak excl. weekend

Prices within the French and the German market, both coupled with Belgium and the Netherlands within the market coupling initiative in Central Western Europe (CWE), converged 38 % of the time.

Intraday markets

On the EPEX SPOT Intraday markets , a total volume of 1,621,153 MWh was traded in January 2013 (January 2012: 1,811,025 MWh):

Areas	Monthly volume MWh	Monthly volume – previous year MWh
DE/AT	1,374,873	1,664,524*
FR	246,280	146,501

* without Austrian market, which was launched in October 2012

In January, cross-border trades represented 12.4 % of the total Intraday volume. Volume in 15-Minute contracts amounted to 83,942 MWh. In January, they represented 6.2 % of the volume traded on the German Intraday market.