Futures Contracts on the Polish Power Exchange
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In 2015 the Polish Power Exchange (Polish: Towarowa Giełda Energii) launched a financial instrument market (Polish: RIF), introducing derivatives – futures contracts which are a basic instrument to protect against volatility on the spot market. The emergence of financial instruments was meant to attract financial institutions to enter the market exchange. They were supposed to bring capital to build up liquidity on the market and take over the risk from industry entities, which should focus on their primary activity instead. During two and a half years of the market’s operation, there was little volume in futures transactions. The article presents benefits from trading the instruments to prompt market activity of potential participants. At the same time, other power exchanges experienced high trade volume growth in derivatives – their trade volume was often higher than physical supply contracts. The future contracts enhance predictability of electrical energy prices that are paid by customers, therefore their role is extremely important.
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