Deutsche Börse Market Data & Analytics is expanding its data services to include the real-time information product Energy Facts.

Deutsche Börse Market Data & Analytics is expanding its data services to include the real-time information product Energy Facts.

Energy Facts provides data for European energy trading. Price-relevant information such as power plant uilization and capacity, wind energy data, key meteorological indicators and additional complex energy reports are available in a consolidated structured form.

The data, which is prepared in a standardized format and subjected to quality control is continuously updated and delivered in real time.

Energy Facts users receive urgent market announcements relevant to trading as soon as they are published.

"Deutsche Börse is increasing energy market transparency with the Energy Facts fundamental data product. Electricity traders, analysts, risk and portfolio managers receive important data upon which to base their decisions," says Holger Wohlenberg, managing director of Market Data & Analytics at Deutsche Börse.

The Energy Facts data service will initially cover Germany, France, Belgium and the Netherlands. In the course of the year, it will also be expanded to include Italy, Spain, Austria and Switzerland.

The product is fed from a variety of sources: from publicly available data, proprietary data from information providers and modeled data from Deutsche Börse.