Electronic exchanges

ALTRA	This platform built in the USA is an auction marketplace which has developed electronic contracts on energy products: gas, NGL/crude, power, and financial swaps on gas. It provides also several softwares which enables the user: to follow NYMEX prices on a minute-to-minute basis, to calculate instantly its risk exposure, and more. Registration is needed for all services. The exchanges first designed for the US fraders, is now expanding toward Europe and Latin America.
AMDAX	An auction aimed at companies in the USA. The auction provides energy contracts. The best bid (highest price) wins. The suppliers are a few. They provide contract specifications for bidding. The auction deals with electricity and natural gas. The site provides also services such as auditing, billing facility, and more.
Automated Power Exchange	APX provides electricity green power and related products trade through an auction or a bullet board. . Currently based in the US with several local exchanges, it plans to expand in Japan and in the UK. It provides services such as scheduling, credit management, settlement, and price discovery.	The exchange was set up in March 1998 in California.
buyEnergy online	This platform is based in the UK. It si a reverse auction (one buyer can select from several supplying bids) which trades gas and electricity in the UK.	It opened in May 2000.
California Power Exchange	This platform is designed for electricity users in California. Major consumer can trade electricity directly with the producers.
Enermetrix .com Essential.com Retail Energy Exchange worldenergy exchange	Those sites act as energy retailers for the US market and even offer other services (telephone, TV satellite, in the case of Essential). They are owned by brokers (Enermetrix) or independent but often they made alliances with other electricty exchanges (such as APX...).
EnMO	This platform would provide forward and futures on gas and electricity for the UK market. EnMO will contain an auction and continuous trading facilities for electricity. The site already exists but the virtual trading floor is not yet operational.
FreeMarkets CoalHub	This platform based in Pittsburgh in the US has operations in Austin, San Jose, Brussels, Singapore, India ,etc. Coal Hub belongs to the platform Freemarkets which supplies in more than 150 categories.
Global Coal	This platform is a test drive for the future platform which will provide auctions and bullet board types. Actually, until the opening, feed backs on proposed standardised quality specifications and on a proposed standardised trading agreement, are expected from futures customers. Global Coal has already conducted the first of its mock trading sessions based on SCoTA in which 105 mock trades were completed totalling over 13 million metric tonnes. Mock sessions are each friday from 7.00 to 8.00 and from 15.00 to 16.00 GMT until the start of live trading.	Opening foresees for the second quarter of 2001. On 23rd October 2000 it was announced that Accel-KKR (USA), Anglo American (UK), Billiton (UK), Enel (Italy), Electric Power, Rio Tinto (UK), Development Corporation (Japan), Glencore International (Switzerland) and TXU Europe (UK) were involved.
Nord Pool	Nord Pool is a multinational auction exchange for electricity. It operates the Nordic spot market, organises trade in standardised financial contracts and offers clearing services to its customers and the over-the-counter market. It is jointly owned by Statnett of Norway and Svenska Kraftnät of Sweden.