SUBSCRIBER NOTE: Platts starts to report weekly Belgian and Dutch power prices

Following industry consultation and review of Belgian and Dutch power market reporting, S&P Global Platts now reports on the Belgian and Dutch power markets on a weekly basis with a reduction of the power contracts being assessed.

Platts will continue to assess and publish on a weekly basis (on Wednesdays) the month-ahead, quarter-ahead and year-ahead as well as year-ahead+1 baseload contracts for both markets. On January 3, 2017, Platts discontinued all day-ahead and related prompt power contracts as well as all Dutch peakload power contracts. The last day of assessment for the affected contracts was December 30, 2016.

Platts remains committed to providing quality market information and commentary in all European power markets and will continue reporting on the above markets' activity, news, events and policy as appropriate.

All affected codes and symbols are listed below. Affected publications are Platts European Power Daily, European Power Alert pages 52 (Netherlands) and 70 (Belgium) and Market Data category EE.

Associated monthly average symbols in Market Data category EE and dynamic symbols in Market Data category PE have also been discontinued along with the associated day-ahead spark and clean spark spreads published in European Power Daily, on European Power Alert pages 640, 642, 662 and 664 and in Market Data category EM.

In addition, Platts has discontinued its Continental European Indices which were published in European Power Daily, on European Power Alert pages 786 and 788 and in Market Data category EE.

Platts continues to invite comments and queries to power@spglobal.com with copy to pricemethodology@spglobal.com.

Assessment codes that changed to weekly assessments from January 4, 2017:

Platts Dutch Weekly Assessments (Eur/MWh) Date Base Month ahead AADMN00 Quarter ahead AADNA00 Year ahead AADNI00 Year ahead + 1 AAETK00 Platts Belgian Weekly Assessments (Eur/MWh) Date Base Month ahead AAMLZ00 Quarter ahead AAMMF00 Year ahead AAMMI00 Year ahead + 1 BPWEY02 Platts Weekly Spark and Clean Spark Spreads Spark spread Clean spark 45% Efficiency 50% Efficiency 45% Efficiency 50% Efficiency Dutch (Eur/MWh) Month ahead DEHMA00 AAOAC00 DEIMA00 CDFMA00 Quarter ahead DEHQ100 DEFQ100 DEIQ100 CDFQ100 Year ahead DEHYA00 DEFYA00 DEIYA00 CDFYA00 Belgian (Eur/MWh) Month ahead BEHM100 AAOAA00 BEIM100 CBFMA00 Quarter ahead BEHQ100 BEFQ100 BEIQ100 CBFQ100

Original codes which were discontinued on December 30, 2016:

Platts Dutch Assessments (Eur/MWh) Date Base Peak Day ahead AADME00 AADMG00 Day ahead + 1 AADME27 AADMG27 Day ahead + 2 AADME28 AADMG28 Day ahead + 3 AADME29 AADMG29 Day ahead + 4 AADME30 AADMG30 Day ahead flow date AADME21 AADMG21 Weekend AAWLW00 Month ahead AADMP00 Quarter ahead AADNC00 Quarter ahead + 1 AADNE00 AADNG00 Year ahead AADNK00 Year ahead + 1 AAETL00 Platts Belgian Assessments (Eur/MWh) Date Base Day ahead AAMKT00 Day ahead + 1 AAMKZ00 Day ahead + 2 AAMLF00 Day ahead + 3 AAMLL00 Day ahead + 4 AAMLR00 Day ahead flow date AAMKS00 Platts Continental European Indices (Eur/MWh) Date ContiMonth PCMIE00 ContiQuarter PCQIE00 ContiCal PCCIE00 Deviation from Continental European Indices and Germany (Eur/MWh) ContiMonth Germany France CFMAE00 GFMAE00 Netherlands CDMAE00 GDMAE00 Belgium CBMAE00 GBMAE00 ContiQuarter Germany France CFQAE00 GFQAE00 Netherlands CDQAE00 GDQAE00 Belgium CBQAE00 GBQAE00 ContiCal Germany France CFYAE00 GFYAE00 Netherlands CDYAE00 GDYAE00 Belgium CBYAE00 GBYAE00 Platts Spark Spreads NL/BE Spark spread Clean spark 45% Efficiency 50% Efficiency 45% Efficiency 50% Efficiency Dutch (Eur/MWh) Day ahead DEHDA00 AAOAB00 DEIDA00 CDFDA00 Quarter ahead + 1 DEHQ200 DEFQ200 DEIQ200 CDFQ200 Belgian (Eur/MWh) Day ahead BEHD100 AANZZ00 BEID100 CBFDA00