Nodal Exchange announced the August 31st planned launch of 168 new power hourly futures contracts available across 7 locations, including:

• ERCOT.HB_NORTH
• ERCOT.HB_SOUTH
• ERCOT.HB_WEST
• ERCOT.HB_HOUSTON
• PJM.WESTERN HUB
• PJM.AEP-DAYTON HUB
• PJM.N ILLINOIS HUB

For each location, there will be 24 contracts available representing a single hour of the day, with the next 5 days of expiries available for trading. These new power contracts will 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.

The power hourly contracts, offered alongside Nodal’s existing daily and monthly contracts, are scheduled to be available August 31st for both block and electronic trading subject to regulatory compliance.

Nodal Exchange announced strong performance in power, environmental, and natural gas futures as of the end of June 2026. Power futures traded volume was 211 million MWh in June, up 28% from the same period in 2025. For the first half of 2026, traded volume was 1.58 billion MWh. Nodal achieved 1.506 billion MWh of open interest as of the end of June 2026 up 2% from 1.481 billion MWh at the end of June 2025. This represents $176 billion of notional value based on both sides. Nodal Exchange remains the leading power futures exchange in North America with 56% U.S. power futures open interest.

Total open interest in Nodal environmental products ended June 2026 with 493,977 lots, up 20% from 410,510 lots a year earlier.

Environmental futures and options volume totaled 400,224 lots for the first half of 2026. Carbon futures and options posted volume of 106,822 lots in the first half of 2026 up 56% from a year earlier.