Tuesday, 15 January 2019
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AIB has released preliminary statistics for Q4 2018 (accessible here). The data from Germany is not yet available but are expected to be finalized towards the end of January or early February. The statistics presented in this article include an estimate of the number of GOs from Germany in Q4. As a reference, Germany canceled 6.2 TWh GOs during Q4 2017.
There was significant growth in the GO market during 2018. Transaction issuance rose by 14% from 2017 while cancelations grew by 8%. At the same time, the rate of expiry fell from 33.5 TWh in 2017 to 10.1 TWh in 2018, a decrease of 70%, which was likely driven by the substantially higher GO price compared to 2017. Cross-border activity rose by 22%, whereas the transfer of GOs, i.e. within a domain grew b...