The presentation on the subject «EPEX Spot on the way to the European energy market" was held in Kiev on the 1st of February. It was organized by representatives of the Ukrainian Energy Exchange.

The speakers at the presentation were the representatives of the joint French-German exchange EPEX Spot and German exchange EEX: Juan Perez Director Strategy & Market Design of EPEX Spot SE and Roman ZYUZEV - International Business Development.

The event was attended by: the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine, NERC, NEC "Ukrenergo", Soviet of national safety of Ukraine, SE "Energorynok", NSC "ECU", NSEC "Energoatom", DTEC, Energy Association of Ukraine, deputy director of Mission of Electricite de France in Ukraine, representative of the law firm Cameron McKenna, a representative of the American company AES, and other representatives of generation, marketing, investment and consulting companies and the press.

The issues of liberalization of European energy markets, the role and place of power exchanges in this process was presented during presentation, a modern structure, problems and prospects of energy markets in Europe were considered. Emphasis was placed on a structure, goals of the creation, operation principles and market segments of the energy exchange EPEX Spot.

Also an issue of the creation of a financial market on the exchange EEX was touched, and experience of creating the clearing system on the base of European Commodity Clearing.

All participants had the opportunity to get answers to their questions.

Reference:
EPEX Spot - one of the leading European energy exchanges providing electricity trading on the united European markets of Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
EEX is the Germany exchange which operates in the market Spot, in the financial markets of energy resources and related products. There are more than 200 participants from 19 countries trading at energy exchange. EEX is the leading energy exchange in size and volume of trading in Western Europe.