ECC, a spin-off of EEX AG, is a central clearing house (CCP), specialising in energy and commodity products. As CCP it assumes the counterparty risk and guarantees the physical and financial settlement of transactions, providing security and cross-margining benefits for its customers. Since its establishment in 2006, ECC has been expanding its product portfolio, customer base and exchange partnership network. Today, ECC provides clearing services for trading venues within the EEX Group (EEX, EEX Asia, EPEX SPOT), as well as for further partner exchanges, including BSP, HUPX, NOREXECO, SEEPEX and SEMOpx. Learn more about ECC’s history:
ECC has constantly expanded its range of products, its membership base and its exchange partnership network as outlined in the following timeline.
Our Achievements
2026
June – 20th Anniversary
2024
March – Start of clearing services for Nordic Zonal Futures offered by EEX
April – Start of clearing services for Slovenian Day-Ahead and Intraday Continuous products traded at BSP Energy Exchange
2023
June – Introduction of Power Futures for the Croatian market
July – Start of clearing services for SEEPEX Intraday Continuous Market
2022
February – Successful launch of Polish Intraday market
September – ECC launches clearing for first Pan-European GO spot auction, offered by EPEX SPOT
2021
February – EPEX SPOT and ECC extend offering in Central Europe by launching Polish Day-Ahead products
October – Start of clearing for the nEHS emissions sales platform in Germany
2020
May – EPEX SPOT and ECC launch Intraday markets in the Nordic region
June – Launch of Nordic Day-ahead markets together with EPEX SPOT
2019
January – Merger of EPEX SPOT SE and EPEX SPOT Belgium
June – Start of clearing services for PWX Spanish Natural Gas
September – Introduction of clearing services for the French GO auction
2018
March – ECC is granted the status of a Recognized Clearing House (RCH) in Singapore
April – Clearing launch for EEX Asia (former Cleartrade Exchange Pte Ltd., CLTX)
August – Start of clearing services for EEX European Liquid Milk Futures
October – Market Launch of SEMOpx
2016
February – Start of clearing services for SEEPEX AD
March – Start of clearing services for HUPX Intraday Market
July – Start of clearing services for EEX and PEGAS Non-MTF Market
September – ECC is offering the Direct Clearing Participant Model (DCPM) for specific spot markets
October – Start of clearing services for EEX Financial Wind Power Futures
December – Start of clearing services for EPEX French Capacity Market
2015
January – Start of clearing services for EEX Futures in Fertilisers
January – Extension of the Trading Limits Service supporting the new Financial Trading Limits for Power Auctions on EPEX Spot
May – Extension of the Trading Limits Service supporting the PEGAS Trading Limits Application, the new trading limit facility for spot trading on PEGAS
May – Start of clearing services for EEX Agricultural Index Futures
September – Start of clearing services for NOREXECO ASA
2014
February – Extension of CWE Market Coupling to North Western Europe (NWE)
June – ECC has been granted an EMIR license to act as CCP in the European Union
September – Start of clearing services for Gaspoint Nordic
2013
September – Start of clearing services for POWER EXCHANGE CENTRAL EUROPE, a.s.
2011
July – Start of clearing HUPX Future Market
2010
July – Hungarian exchange HUPX Ltd. becomes new partner of ECC
November – Launch CWE Market Coupling
2009
April – In the framework of the EEX-Powernext co-operation, ECC provides clearing and settlement for all products traded on EPEX SPOT and EEX Power Derivatives
October – ECC subsidiary in Luxembourg starts operations (ECC Luxembourg S.a.r.l.)
December – ECC launches clearing and settlement for contracts traded on the CEGH Gas Exchange of Vienna Stock Exchange
2008
November – ECC launches co-operation with Powernext SA
2006
April – EEX announces the spin-off of a subsidiary for clearing services
July – The Dutch derivatives exchange ENDEX European Energy Derivatives Exchange N.V. and EEX sign a co-operation agreement
August – ECC obtains a banking license from the Federal Financial Supervision Authority (BaFin)
August – ECC is entered in the Commercial Register