SUBSCRIBER NOTE: Platts proposes discontinuing some French, Spanish power price assessments

In view of changing trading patterns in the French and Spanish power markets, S&P Global Platts is seeking feedback on a proposal to discontinue some daily power assessments for France and Spain on October 1, 2017. The assessments being considered for discontinuation are listed below and are published in Platts European Power Daily, on European Power Alert pages 85 (France) and 81 (Spain) and in Market Data category EE. Associated monthly average symbols in Market Data category EE and dynamic symbols in Market Data category PE would also be discontinued under this proposal. FRENCH ASSESSMENTS PROPOSED TO BE DISCONTINUED Base Peak Week ahead AAHNP00 AACXZ00 Month ahead+1 AAHNR00 AACYD00 Month ahead+2 PFWEM03 PFWVM03 Year ahead+1 PFWEY02 PFWVY02 Year ahead+2 PFWEY03 PFWVY03 Platts also proposes to discontinue assessing French Saturday and Sunday power prices. Platts is proposing to use the last working day of the week's assessment of the weekend code PFWE042 to replace Saturday and Sunday for the flow date price data set. SPANISH ASSESSMENTS PROPOSED TO BE DISCONTINUED Base Day ahead AAXSY00 Day ahead + 1 AAXSY27 Day ahead + 2 AAXSY28 Day ahead + 3 AAXSY29 Day ahead + 4 AAXSY30 Day ahead Flow date AAXSY21 Day ahead monthly average AADGY00 Day ahead monthly average Flow date AADGY20 Weekend SBTWE00 Week-ahead AADIR00 Month ahead+1 AADJC00 Quarter ahead+2 AARIF00 Platts invites comments and queries to power@spglobal.com with copy to pricemethodology@spglobal.com by July 17, 2017. For written comments, please provide a clear indication if comments are not intended for publication by Platts for public viewing. Platts will consider all comments received and will make available upon request comments not marked as confidential.