emcc: About EMCC

About EMCC

EMCC‘s Structure

EMCC European Market Coupling Company GmbH was founded in Hamburg, Germany, in August 2008. It is a joint venture of Nord Pool Spot, European Energy Exchange (EEX), 50Hertz Transmission GmbH (formerly Vattenfall Europe Transmission), transpower stromübertragungs gmbh (formerly E.ON Netz) and Energinet.dk.

EMCC is accredited as trading participant at the exchanges EEX and Nord Pool Spot. The company is entitled by the capacity owners transpower, 50Hertz and Energinet.dk to allocate available cross-border capacities in implicit auctions.

EMCC‘s Scope

EMCC provides congestion management services for the electrical transmission networks by means of market coupling. Using implicit auctions, market coupling is a possibility for day-ahead congestion management, which leads to the highest efficient use of existing cross-border interconnections. Thus, EMCC performs a service function for the benefit of all market participants, which last but not least benefit the ultimate consumer.  For a detailed description, please refer to The Concept of Market Coupling.

Being the central auction office for coupling between the European Continent and Scandinavia, EMCC currently carries out market coupling on the two Interconnectors between Germany and Denmark (DK West: capacity northbound 950 MW, southbound 1,500 MW, DK East: capacity  550 MW in both directions). EMCC, its internal set-up and its IT system are designed to allow for the extension of its services to other interconnections and markets.

EMCC’s Vision

European Market Coupling Company (EMCC) improves market efficiency of cross-border capacity trading and promotes the integration of regional markets towards a Europe-wide wholesale electricity market.