The European Energy Exchange (EEX) increased its volume on the power derivatives market by 4 per cent in August to 282.2 TWh compared to the previous year (August 2018: 271.3 TWh).
The Dutch power market recorded the largest growth rate of 62 per cent with a volume of 2.1 TWh (August 2018: 1.3 TWh). On the markets for Central- and South-Eastern Europe, trading volumes increased by 50 per cent to 15.5 TWh (August 2018: 10.4 TWh). The German Phelix-DE market contributed the largest share to the overall volume at 193.8 TWh and a year-on-year increase of 28 per cent (August 2018: 151.0 TWh).
In the EEX emissions trading market, the volume amounted to 68.5 million tonnes of CO2 in August (August 2018: 252.1 million tonnes of CO2). The primary market auctions contributed 29.2 million tonnes of CO2 to the total volume. In the secondary market, the volume amounted to 39.3 million tonnes of CO2 (August 2018: 212.4 million tonnes of CO2).
In August, the volume in agricultural products amounted to 6,239 contracts (August 2018: 6,257 contracts). The volume in processing potatoes amounted to 5,038 contracts (equivalent to 125,950 tonnes of goods equivalent).
The derivatives market for dairy products reached a volume of 1,201 contracts (equivalent to 6,005 tonnes of goods equivalent).EEX trading volumes in freight increased almost 4-fold with 3,514 lots traded in August ’19 (August 2018: 880 lots).
