OREANDA-NEWS. SGX Electricity Market Report.
  • SGX Electricity Futures (EF) ended the first month of trading in 2016 with 123 lots, the third highest month after December and July. Total volume since trading started in June last year is now 1,056 lots (1,160 GWh). Open interest as at the end of last week was 559 lots (613 GWh). Daily settlement prices (DSP) for all contracts were between $53-$74/MWh in the past two weeks.  The furthest contract quarter, 1Q18 (Mar-18), was also traded for the first time last week.
  • During the week of 17-23 January 2016, the weekly USEP rose by 12.3% to average at $86.03/MWh, the highest weekly USEP since end of September 2015. Forecasted demand during the week declined by 0.8% after two weeks of increase to  average at 5,560 MW. The decline could be attributed to cooling temperature seen this week. On a week-on-week basis, weaker forecasted demand were observed on all days, with Thursday registered the largest drop of 1.4%.
  • Total supply for the week of 17-23 January 2016 increased by 1.8% from the preceding week to average at 7,808 MW, due to strong CCGT supply. This level of supply was in fact the highest supply in the last eight weeks since December 2015. Week-on-week comparison showed that the supply was higher on all days, except on Friday, where one CCGT unit at 271 MW was on forced outage. Lower GT supply was observed on Friday and Saturday due to the outage of one GT unit at 24 MW.
  • Please note of the new and better margin schedule for Electricity Futures effective today.