Platts corrects historical German power prices, derived from third-party data

S&P Global Platts has corrected certain German power prices, derived from EEX data, which were published over the period of May 31, 2018, to Dec. 27, 2018. The affected calculations that used this data have also been corrected.

The affected calculations, such as spark spreads, dark spreads, clean spark spreads, clean dark spreads, baseload calculations and conversions from Eur/MWh to p/th, Eur/Gj and $/MMBtu, which use this data have also been corrected.

The corrections affected the following data series:

Symbols Description

AAIVL00 EEX German/Austrian Month-ahead

AAIVM00 EEX German/Austrian Month-ahead +1

EEXSQ00 EEX Germany 1 Qtr Base Euro/MWh

EEXSR00 EEX Germany 2 Qtr Base Euro/MWh

EEXSS00 EEX Germany 3 Qtr Base Euro/MWh

EEXST00 EEX Germany 4 Qtr Base Euro/MWh

EEXSU00 EEX German year 1

EEXSV00 EEX German year 2

EEXSW00 EEX German year 3

EEXSX00 EEX German year 4

EEXSY00 EEX German year 5

EEXSZ00 EEX German year 6

The values have been corrected for the following dates:

5/31/2018

7/30/2018

7/31/2018

8/31/2018

12/27/2018

The affected prices were published on the following fixed pages of Platts real-time services: EP0220, GC0900, EP0222, GC0902, EP0641, NG0834, EP0668, NG0835, EP0067, EP0068 , EP0503 and EP0502. They were also published on European Power Daily, Coal Daily and Power in Europe.

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