PRESS RELEASE
Registered records for the delivery day of March 19th, 2009

Despite the financial crisis effect on the economy, having as consequence the decrease of the energy consumption, the interest and the confidence in Day Ahead Market are maintained, proved by the increasing traded volumes and even more by these volumes’ share of the forecasted consumption.

Until OPCOM will publish the comparative figures at the end of March, OPCOM announces, for the delivery day of March 19th, 2009, several values recorded as maximum in the last twenty months:

• Daily volume: 23,818 MWh;
• Hourly average volume: 992 MWh/h;
• Market share: 15.30% of the forecasted consumption.

As well, for 10 hourly intervals, there were registered traded volumes above 1,000 MWh.

A general feature of the last months on the electricity market is the participants’ focus on short-term trading.

PRESS RELEASE 19.03.2009