About us
Nord Pool is Europe's leading power market and offers trading, clearing, settlement and associated services in both day-ahead and intraday markets across 16 European countries.
Our product is a transparent and reliable power price produced within our markets every hour, every day.
Nord Pool provides liquid, efficient and secure day-ahead and intraday markets to our customers. We are committed to simple, straight-through trading for all our customers regardless of their size or where they trade from. We are the counterparty for all trades; guaranteeing settlement and delivery.
360 companies from 20 countries trade on our markets in the Nordic and Baltic regions, the UK, Central Western Europe (covering Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg and The Netherlands) and Poland. See our membership section if you want to trade.
Nord Pool’s team is absolutely committed to excellence, problem-solving and making our customers’ lives simpler. Our markets are operated from offices in Oslo, Stockholm, Helsinki, Tallinn, Berlin and London. Contact us and we will do our best to assist you.
Consulting
Nord Pool Consulting offers a range of services around market design, rulebook development and market regulation, power market systems and capacity building, and provides seminars based on its unrivalled knowledge of Nordic, Baltic and Europe-wide power market development. Nord Pool Consulting operates across the world.
Owners
Nord Pool is owned by Euronext (66%) and TSO Holding 34%.
Regulation
Nord Pool AS is licensed by the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (NVE) to organise and operate a market place for trading power, and by the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy to facilitate the power market with foreign countries.
Nord Pool is appointed as a Nominated Electricity Market Operator (NEMO) in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland and Sweden which signifies Nord Pool’s ability to meet the new Network Guidelines on Capacity Allocation and Congestion Management (CACM), which came into force on 14 August 2015.
Figures
During 2021 a total of 963 TWh of power was traded through Nord Pool (made up of buy volume of 462 TWh and sell volume of 501 TWh).
The Nordic and Baltic day-ahead market traded 722.5 TWh and the UK day-ahead market 147.3 TWh, while Nord Pool’s central European (CE) day-ahead market (covering Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, The Netherlands and Poland) achieved 68.2 TWh of power traded by year end. Total intraday trading, across all markets, for the year stood at 25.18 TWh.