EPEX SPOT SE is a company under European law based in Paris (France) with offices in Amsterdam (the Netherlands), Berlin (Germany), Bern (Switzerland), Brussels (Belgium), London (United Kingdom), and Vienna (Austria).

[1] It operates the power spot markets for short-term trading in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Sweden and Switzerland.

[14] EPEX SPOT operates day-ahead power markets for Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany-Luxemburg, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Sweden and Switzerland.

These Day-Ahead markets are organised through an auction process, matching once a day supply and demand curves and thus fixing prices in an anonymous, yet transparent and secured manner.

[16] EPEX SPOT also operates intraday power markets for Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany-Luxemburg, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland.

[20] In December 2014, EPEX SPOT launched a call auction for 15-minute contracts on the German Intraday market in order to provide a reliable price signal on a quarter-hour basis.

This auction at 3 pm CET provides at tool for balance responsible parties to fine-tune their portfolios on a 15-minute basis during production ramps and forecast deviations.

[21][22] In 2017, EPEX SPOT introduced 30-minute contracts on the French, German and Swiss continuous intraday market, enabling local and implicit cross-border trades on the respective borders.

In April 2015, EPEX SPOT and former APX Group announced the integration of their businesses in order to form a Power Exchange for Central Western Europe, encompassing at the time Austria, Belgium, Germany, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Switzerland and the UK.