Trading electricity on the different market segments of the Belpex Spot Market presents many advantages that can benefit all kinds of market actors. Indeed, as a generator it allows you for instance to optimize the use of your generation facilities, whereas as an industrial consumer it allows you to diversify your power supply strategy. Trading on the Belpex Spot Market permits a supplier to hedge at minimum cost its short term volume risk while commodity traders, in relation to a Powernext or APX membership will find it very easy to ship electricity cross-border without having to acquire the capacity first.
To summarize, trading on the Belpex Spot Market allows you:
- to diversify your power supply strategy
- to optimize the use of your generation facilities
- to optimize, at minimum cost, your short term risk volume management
- to trade on an anonymous basis
- to eliminate your counterparty risk through the central clearing service associated to Belpex contracts
- to trade at an efficient and transparent market price
- in relation with Powernext (APX) membership, to easily (no necessity to first acquire cross-border capacity on a capacity market) ship energy between Belgium and France (the Netherlands) and this at the right market price (in case of congestion, the implicitly paid capacity equals the difference between the concerned power exchanges)
For a full overview of the characteristics and benefits of the different market segments of the Belpex Spot Market, please consult the related product sheets.