Day-Ahead and Intraday trading systems to be harmonised across Central Western Europe

More liquidity through one integrated intraday market area for the entire region
The systems used by EPEX SPOT for power spot trading will replace the APX trading system in the Netherlands and Belgium by the end of 2016. The current solution used by APX, EuroLight®, will be succeeded by ETS for the Day- Ahead, and to M7 for continuous Intraday trading. Thus all EPEX SPOT power spot markets in Central Western Europe (CWE) – Germany/Austria, France, the Netherlands, Belgium and Switzerland – will run on unified power trading systems. Trading participants will benefit from a simplified infrastructure and the possibility to trade power across the CWE region on one single screen per market segment. …