EEX records major growth in Power, Emissions and Agricultural markets

In September 2016, the monthly volume on EEX’s power derivatives market amounted to 373.3 TWh, increasing the volume traded in September 2015 (225.8 TWh) by 65%.

In particular, the core markets Germany (248.2 TWh, +68%), France (46.2 TWh, +57%) and Italy (51.0 TWh, +33%) contributed to the total volume. Volume in power options for Germany increased nearly 3-fold to 18.6 TWh (September 2015: 6.9 TWh).

The September volumes comprised 199.0 TWh registered at EEX for clearing. Clearing and settlement of all transactions was executed by European Commodity Clearing (ECC).

Emission Allowances

On the EEX Market for emission allowances, a total volume of 92.6 million tonnes of CO2 was traded in September which represents an increase of 27% (September 2015: 73.0 million tonnes of CO2).

The volume on the EUA Derivatives Market more than doubled compared to the previous year, to 22.2 million tonnes of CO2 (September 2015: 9.2 million tonnes of CO2). Primary market auctions contributed 62.1 million tonnes of CO2 to the total volume.

Agricultural Products

In September, a total of 6,678 contracts were traded in agricultural products at EEX, representing more than a 4-fold volume increase against the previous year (September 2015: 1,424 contracts). The total volume included 5,593 contracts (equal to 139,825 tonnes) from European processing potatoes and 1,085 contracts (equal to 5,425 tonnes) from dairy products.

Global Commodities

In September, EEX registered 2,795 contracts in freight futures.

New Participants

In September, EEX admitted METAENERGIA S.p.A., Rome, and Vattenfall Europe Generation AG, Cottbus (Germany), as new trading participant.