Another key highlight of the newly commenced market segment was the single day highest volume of 36.09 MU on 30 June 2020 when 110 customers participated in the various auction sessions held over a day.
The double-sided closed auction ensured efficient price discovery, transparency, flexibility and a seamless trading experience for the market participants. The market saw a substantial sell-side liquidity at 1810 MU - 2.4 times of the buy volumes at 742 MU and competitive price discovery. Consequently, the average market clearing price was at Rs 2.22 per unit, lower than the day ahead market average price for June, at Rs 2.35 per unit. The attractive prices enabled great savings and good financial liquidity for the utilities as well as the open access consumers.
The market not only facilitated unrequisitioned surplus generation capacity find buyers but also facilitated generators to purchase power to fulfil obligations created due to outages. Setting a new precedent, two of our clients - Raipur Power and Raigarh Energy Generation became the first generators to have bought electricity to meet their commitment.
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