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ANRE: 85.88% of the gas consumed in Romania was traded on RCE in May 2018

28 August 2018
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The volume of natural gas traded on the centralized markets in May 2018 reached 85.88% of the total domestic consumption, according to the latest monthly report of the National Regulatory Authority for Energy (ANRE) regarding the gas market in Romania in May 2018.

Domestic gas production in May 2018, which entered consumption, was 6.03 TWh and accounted for 99.88% of the total consumption. The import that entered consumption consisted of the difference of 3.353 MWh (0.06% of the total consumed).

Domestic consumption of final customers was 5.81 TWh, down 3.97% over the same month of the previous year.

On the regulated market, consumption was lower by 22.5%, reaching 1.35 TWh, while on the competitive market there was an increase of 1.38% to 4.70 TWh.

On the centralized markets managed by the Romanian Commodities Exchange – RCE (Disponibil and STEG Platforms), 5.2 TWh was traded, which means 85.88% of domestic consumption. As of May 2017, the amount of gas traded on the centralized markets increased by 32.12% (20.88 percentage points), from 4.11 TWh (65%). However, the share dropped compared to April 2018 (95.67%).

On the centralized platforms operated by OPCOM no transactions were made.

On the Disponibil Platform of RCE, the average price in May was 75.07 lei per MWh, slightly increasing from 74.5 lei per MWh in April and by 6% higher than in May 2017. On the STEG platform, the price average at 74.83 lei per MWh, similar to the average in the previous month, while by 5.3% higher than in May 2017.

The import gas price was 94.23 lei per MWh, down from 98.30 lei per MWh in April 2018.

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