Platts to publish daily forward curves for German dark spreads, clean dark spreads

Platts will start publishing daily forward curves for German dark spreads and German clean dark spreads as of Monday, March 1, 2010.

These spreads reflect the margin of German coal-fired power generation and will be calculated from existing Platts daily electricity, coal and carbon assessments using established industry formulas. These additional data sets will complement Platts' existing daily European spark and clean spark spread assessments. The German dark spread and clean dark spread methodology will be available on platts.com.

The two dark spread forward curves will comprise two front-months, two front-quarters and two calendar years. They will be published in European Power Daily, Coal Trader International and on the real-time European Power Alert service and will be available via Dispatch data.

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