PRESS RELEASE
(Bucharest, January, 25th 2010)
January 2010, month of absolute records for performance indicators of the Day Ahead Market
For January 26th, 2010, OPCOM announces absolute record numbers for the performance of Day Ahead Market transactions, having as background an intense participation of 65 of the 99 companies registered in the market:
- Total volume, absolute record, of 32,467 MWh, in hourly average values nearly 1,353 MWh/h, equivalent to a market share of 18.21% of the consumption forecasted for this day;
- Record value for the hourly volume, for the 12th interval of the day: 1,570 MWh/h, also the highest value recorded since launch.
These results occurred in the context of a month favorable to short-term transactions, January 2010 bringing other absolute records also:
- Record of active participation regarding daily level: 66 participants expressed trading intentions for delivery on January 15th , 2010;
- Monthly participation record: 70 of 99 registered participants expressed trading intentions for delivery in January 2010, all of them establishing transactions;
- Record value for the hourly average at monthly level: 1,040 MWh/h, also the highest value recorded since launch.
Notably is that starting with the first delivery day of this year, in 64% of hourly intervals traded so far (the percentage value is also an absolute record), the settled hourly volumes were higher than 1,000 MWh/h, the delivery day of January 26th, 2010 seeing for all hours traded volumes that exceeded this value; a similar result was reached in the other two days of the year, 6th and 19th of January, 2010.
PRESS RELEASE 25.01.2010 
For more information, contact please S.C. OPCOM S.A.
Victor IONESCU, CEO,
telephone +4 021 3071 450
fax +4 021 3071 400
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