Exchange Council: Intraday migration and single exchange membership as further milestones in APX/EPEX integration

Launch of the new Belgian-French & Belgian-Dutch Intraday solution. At the quarterly meeting of the Exchange Council of the European Power Exchange EPEX SPOT, the Council discussed further integration of EPEX SPOT and APX. One of the most significant milestones in integration is reached when M7, the trading system for the EPEX SPOT intraday markets in Germany, France, Austria and Swit- zerland, is extended to the Netherlands and Belgium. M7 replaces the trading platform Eu- roLight that is currently used for local and cross-border Intraday trading in the Netherlands and Belgium. Migration to M7 will allow implicit coupling not only on the Belgian-Dutch border but also on the French-Belgian border. ….