Nodal Exchange today announced growth in power, gas, and environmental markets in August 2026. Nodal power futures volume for August was 214.2 MWh, up 8% from July 2026. The majority of U.S. power futures open interest is on Nodal Exchange with 1.451 billion MWh and 55% market share as of the end of August 2026.

Nodal Exchange announced on August 31 the launch of 168 new power hourly futures contracts available across 7 locations. For each location, there are 24 contracts available representing a single hour of the day, with the next 5 days of expiries available for trading. These new power contracts allow participants to manage real-time positions, hour-by-hour, directly on Nodal and are the first hourly futures contracts to be offered by Nodal Exchange.

Nodal’s natural gas markets futures trading reached 51.2 million MMBtu in August 2026, up 61% from 31.8 million MMBtu in August 2025. Open interest in Nodal’s natural gas markets reached 25.1 MMBtu as of the end of August, a 147% increase from a year ago.

Environmental futures and options on Nodal Exchange posted volume of 35,150 lots in August. Open interest ended the month at 454,313 lots, up 12% from a year earlier.

Carbon futures and options posted volume of 12,792 lots, with open interest of 70,505 lots. Renewable energy certificates (RECs) on Nodal posted volume of 20,739 lots, with open interest of 365,799 lots.

Nodal, in collaboration with IncubEx, launched financially-settled futures and options contracts based on OPIS daily price assessments on August 17th. The new product offering includes WCA vs. CCA (OPIS) Spread Futures and California Low Carbon Fuel Standard Credit (OPIS) Futures & Options.

“Nodal Exchange is proud to serve the power, gas, and environmental markets,” said Paul Cusenza, Chairman and CEO of Nodal Exchange. “Managing risk in all of our markets is increasingly important, and we will continue to seek to best meet the evolving needs of the participants we serve.”

ABOUT NODAL

Nodal Exchange is a derivatives exchange providing price, credit and liquidity risk management solutions to participants in the North American commodities markets. Nodal Exchange is a leader in innovation, having introduced the world’s largest set of electric power locational (nodal) futures contracts and the world’s largest set of environmental contracts. As part of EEX Group, a group of companies serving international commodity markets, Nodal Exchange currently offers over 1,000 contracts on hundreds of unique locations, providing the most effective basis risk management available to market participants. In addition, Nodal Exchange offers natural gas contracts. All Nodal Exchange contracts are cleared by Nodal Clear which is a CFTC registered derivatives clearing organization. Nodal Exchange is a designated contract market regulated by the CFTC. www.nodalexchange.com

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