EEX: Volume increases on the power and CO2 market
Leipzig, 1 April 2016. The monthly volume on EEX’s power derivatives market amounted to 255.8 terawatt hours (TWh) in March 2016 which is an increase of 14% compared to March 2015 (223.6 TWh).
In particular, the markets for Germany (+5% year-on year), France (+62%) and Italy (+12%) contributed to this increase. At 219 GWh, EEX reached the highest volume in power options for Spain since the start of this product in August 2015 while Spanish power futures contributed 4.4 TWh to the overall derivatives volume.
The March volumes comprised 136.9 TWh registered at EEX for clearing. Clearing and settlement of all transactions was executed by European Commodity Clearing (ECC).
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