The new System of voluntary Transparency

Albert MoserDirector Business DevelopmentEuropean Energy Exchange AGCopenhagen, June 27th, 2006

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Introduction

German producers EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG, RWE AG, E.ON Energie AG and Vattenfall Europe AG started an initiative to publish generation data on a central information platform.

The public information platform (www.eex.de) is organized by EEX.

Participation is voluntary for producers.

Data publication started on April 10th, 2006.

Publication rules are set out in a bilateral standard contracts between EEX and producers.

About 6.000 requests per month.

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Scope of Generation Data Published

Installed capacity

- aggregated per fuel type (nuclear, lignite, hard coal, gas, oil, water, other)

- Updated every quarter year

Available capacity

- daily figures

- aggregated per fuel type (nuclear, lignite, hard coal, gas, oil, water, other)

- for the next 365 days

- daily updated at 10 a.m.

Historic production

- hourly figures

- aggregated per fuel type (nuclear, lignite, hard coal, gas, oil, water, other)

- publication at 4:30 p.m. on the following business day

List of generation units

- name and fuel type

- updated when required

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Publication Rules

Generation units being covered

- > 20 MW

- nuclear, lignite, hard coal, gas, oil, water and other

- wind and pump storage are excluded

Obligations for data delivery

- mandatory data delivery for generation units fully owned

- voluntary data delivery for generation units partially owned

Data to be delivered

- scope

- format

- time schedule for data delivery

Processing by EEX

- aggregation rules

- plausibility checks

- publication time table

- free access to published data

Confidentiality

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Information Platform – www.eex.de

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Next Steps

In preparation

- More producers

- Generation units in other countries, e. g. Austria

Under discussion

- Planned maintenances

- Unplanned outages

- Restarts after outage