EPEX SPOT Power Trading Results Of August 2016: Flexibility Contracts Grow Their Importance Across Markets

In August 2016, a total volume of 41.6 TWh was traded on EPEX SPOT’s Day-Ahead and Intraday power markets (August 2015: 44.5 TWh).
All EPEX SPOT continuous intraday markets witnessed another month of growing volumes.

Day-Ahead markets
In August 2016, power trading on the Day-Ahead markets on EPEX SPOT (including APX) accounted for a total of 36,548,111 MWh (August 2015: 40,024,897 MWh).
Prices in Central Western Europe, connected within the Multiregional Coupling, converged 58% of the time (August 2015: 21%).

Intraday markets
On the EPEX SPOT Intraday markets (including APX), a total volume of 5,082,073 MWh was traded in August 2016 (August 2015: 4,471,629 MWh).
In August, cross-border trades represented 21% of the total continuous Intraday volume in Germany, France, Austria and Switzerland. 15-minute contracts represented 11% of the volume traded on the German, Austrian and Swiss continuous Intraday markets.