EEX Group’s European Spot markets amounted to 54.6 TWh overall in January. On the very short end, the Intraday markets volumes increased by 10 per cent as against January 2021.
EEX Group’s European Spot markets amounted to 54.6 TWh overall in January. On the very short end, the Intraday markets volumes increased by 10 per cent as against January 2021.
European Derivatives markets increased by 22 per cent to 393.3 TWh: EEX posted increases in German (+26 per cent), French (+27 per cent) and Italian Power Futures (+6 per cent) while Power Options rose by 39 per cent. Power Futures trading in the Netherlands and the Nordics reached new monthly records at 3.3 TWh and 1.2 TWh respectively.
Trading in US Power Derivatives reached 221.9 TWh, up 58 per cent compared to the same month last year.
EEX Group’s Natural Gas markets increased to 411.6 TWh in total, up 65 per cent compared to January 2021.
European Natural Gas Spot volumes rose by 33 per cent to 229.3 TWh, driven by increases across the main of the markets, including the Austrian CEGH (+53 per cent), the French PEG (+22 per cent), the Dutch TTF (+57 per cent), the Czech hub (+124 per cent) and the Belgian ZTP (+41 per cent) – the latter recording a new monthly record.
European Gas Derivatives volumes more than doubled (+126 per cent) with major hubs posting triple-digit growth such as the Austrian CEGH and Czech hub (+182 per cent and +287 per cent, respectively), the German THE (+428 per cent) and the French PEG (+188 per cent).
Trading in US Gas Derivatives reached 9.7 TWh.
Environmental markets in Europe rose by 50 per cent to a total volume of 74 million tonnes of CO2 driven mainly by the higher volume in the primary Spot markets. This is due to the fact that the emission auctions resumed on 10 January 2022 whereas in 2021 auctioning started only as of 29 January.
Within the German National Emissions Trading System (nEHS) 216,787 nEHS certificates were sold.
