PRESS RELEASE

(Bucharest, September 05, 2019)

11 new entries in OPCOM market places during August 2019, AMROMCO ENERGY (CMNG, DAM-NG, IDM-NG), CATALAN ELECTRIC (IDM), ENERGOVIA (DAM), ENERO FURNIZARE (GCM), NEXT ENERGY DISTRIBUTION (CMNG), TINMAR ENERGY (CMNG), CIS GAZ (CMNG), AIK ENERGY LTD LONDRA SUCURSALA BUCURESTI (CM-OTC), VEOLIA ENERGIE PRAHOVA (CMBC-CN), ENERGY DISTRIBUTION SERVICES (CMNG) and ELECTRICA FURNIZARE (DAM-NG, IDM-NG, CMNG).

At the end of August, 375 participants were registered in the spot market, 140 were enrolled in the Intraday Market, 265 companies were listed in the Trading registry of Centralized Market for Electricity Bilateral Contracts Extended Auction mechanism, 182 companies were listed in the Trading registry of Centralized Market for Electricity Bilateral Contracts Continuous Negotiation mechanism, 99 companies were listed as registered participants in the Centralized Market with double continuous negotiation for Electricity Bilateral Contracts (CM-OTC), 23 participants were registered in Centralized Market for Universal Service and 1 participant was registered in the Electricity Market for Large Consumers (LCM).

Green Certificates Market had 946 registered participants at August 31.

At the end of August, 31 companies were listed as registered participants in the Centralized Market for Natural Gas, 39 participants were registered in the Day Ahead Market for Natural Gas (DAM-NG) and 27 participants were enrolled in the Intraday Market for Natural Gas.

About OPCOM
OPCOM is the Romanian Electricity and Gas Market Operator. Since 2000, OPCOM has been committed to strengthen a marketplace where energy and environmental certificates are traded in conditions of transparency and integrity. Today, the trading portfolio offered by OPCOM ranges from electricity products to gas products, as well as green certificates. More than 900 companies are using the products available for trading on short-term electricity, gas and green certificates markets as well as on term markets for electricity, gas and green certificates bilateral contracts. In addition to this role, OPCOM is responsible for settlement of the transactions concluded on short-term energy markets, Balancing Market as well as the Imbalances of the Balancing Responsible Parties. OPCOM also manages the Green Certificates Register. Today, OPCOM is acting as Registered Reporting Mechanism under REMIT for more than 460 companies active on its electricity and gas markets. OPCOM was designated by the Romanian Energy Regulatory Authority as Nominated Electricity Market Operator (NEMO) in accordance with the Regulation (EU) 2015/1222 for fulfilling tasks related to the coupling of the day-ahead and intraday markets.
OPCOM applies the Quality Management System complying with ISO 9001 - SR EN ISO 9001, respectively the Information Security Management System complying with ISO/IEC 27001 - SR EN ISO/IEC 27001, both systems being certified by Lloyd's Register LRQA. 
For more information about OPCOM, please visit us at www.opcom.ro.

PRESS RELEASE 5.9.2019