The European Energy Exchange (EEX) achieved a total volume of 246.9 TWh on its power derivatives markets in May (May 2016: 287.8 TWh).
In the Phelix futures for the German/Austrian market area, a volume of 164.2 TWh was traded in May. The volume for the newly introduced Phelix-DE-Futures amounted to 8.1 TWh. EEX recorded the highest monthly trading volume since the beginning of the year in Italian (36.5 TWh) and Spanish (6.4 TWh) power futures.
The May volume comprises 144.4 TWh traded at EEX via Trade Registration with subsequent clearing. Clearing and settlement of all exchange transactions was executed by European Commodity Clearing (ECC).
On the EEX Market for emission allowances, traded volumes in May increased by 66% to 105.2 million tonnes of CO2 (May 2016: 63.4 million tonnes of CO2). With 28.4 million tonnes of CO2, the trading volume on the EUA derivatives market of EEX more than doubled (May 2016: 13.4 million tonnes of CO2). The primary market auctions contributed 70.0 million tonnes of CO2 to the total volume.
Throughout May, a total of 5,445 contracts was traded in agricultural products (May 2016: 3,491 contracts). This includes 2,952 contracts from processing potatoes (equal to 73,800 tonnes) and 2,493 contracts from dairy products (equal to 12,465 tonnes). A new monthly record was set for butter futures with 1,382 traded contracts (equal to 6,910 tonnes).
In freight futures which are available for trade registration, EEX recorded a volume of 5,245 contracts in May.
In May, EEX admitted Powermart Aps, Denmark, as new trading participant. Additionally, ALPIQ ENERGY SE, Prague, was admitted for trading on the power derivatives market.
