Leipzig, 1 September 2016. In August 2016, the monthly volume on EEX’s power derivatives market amounted to 198.0 TWh, increasing the volume traded in August 2015 (168.2 TWh) by 18%.
On the Spanish power derivatives market, the trading volume more than doubled to 3.3 TWh (August 2015: 1.5 TWh). EEX also recorded significant growth on the Italian market with a volume of 26.1 TWh (August 2015: 15.6 TWh, +67%). The market for Germany recorded a volume of 136.3 TWh which is an increase of 7% compared to the previous year (August 2015: 127.3 TWh). In Nordic power futures, EEX recorded the highest volume since the launch of this product at 303,135 MWh.
The August volumes comprised 105.9 TWh registered at EEX for clearing. Clearing and settlement of all transactions was executed by European Commodity Clearing (ECC).
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