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 |
Monthly volume – previous year |
Price – monthly average |
|
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 |
Monthly volume – previous year |
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.