Paris, 03 January 2014. In December 2013, a total volume of 31.6 TWh was traded on EPEX SPOT’s Day-Ahead and Intraday markets (December 2012: 29.2 TWh). This is the best monthly result since the creation of the European Power Exchange and beats the last record from December 2011 (30.9 TWh) by 2.2%. Over the entire month, more than 1 TWh was traded on a daily average on EPEX SPOT’s markets, making it one of the most liquid places for spot power trading in Europe and the world.
Day-Ahead markets
In December 2013, power trading on the Day-Ahead auctions on EPEX SPOT accounted for a total of 29,141,566 MWh (December 2012: 27,575,997 MWh) and can be broken down as follows:
| Areas |
Monthly volume |
Monthly volume - previous year MWh |
Price - monthly average (Base / Peak*) Euro/MWh |
| DE/AT | 22,159,244 | 20,638,686 | 35.75 / 50.38 |
| FR | 5,439,227 | 5,549,899 | 49.71 / 61.54 |
| CH | 1,543,095 | 1,477,230 | 52.55 / 62.16 |
| ELIX - European Electricity Index | 43.54 / 57.86 | ||
The volume on the German/Austrian market reached a new all-time high, beating the previous record from October 2013 (21 670 182 MWh) by 2.3%.
Prices within the French and the German market, both coupled with the Benelux markets within Central Western Europe (CWE), converged 48% of the time.
Intraday markets
On the EPEX SPOT Intraday markets, a total volume of 2,410,275 MWh was traded in December 2013 (December 2012: 1,630,877 MWh).
| Areas | Monthly volume MWh |
Monthly volume - previous year MWh |
| DE/AT | 2,055,071 | 1,401,993 |
| FR | 283,148 | 228,884 |
| CH | 72,056 | 0* |
The German/Austrian market reached its second best result of all time and also hit the 2 TWh mark for the second time.
In December, cross-border trades represented 15.1% of the total Intraday volume. Volume in 15-Minute contracts amounted to 207,041 MWh. In December, they represented 9.9% of the volume traded on the German and Swiss Intraday markets.
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The European Power Exchange EPEX SPOT SE operates the power spot markets for France, Germany, Austria and Switzerland (Day-Ahead and Intraday). Together these countries account for more than one third of the European power consumption. EPEX SPOT is a European company (Societas Europaea) based in Paris with a branch in Leipzig.