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Competitiveness of wholesale energy markets is a fundamental goal of the EU since more than 20 years. Recently, specific pieces of legislation like REMIT have been introduced to foster market transparency and integrity. According to Clara Poletti – Head of the Energy Division at the Italian energy regulator ARERA (formerly known as AEEGSI) – national energy regulators are used to cooperate with na...

At the margins of the residential part of the Annual Training on the Regulation of Energy Utilities, Maria Olczak (FSR) talks with Aad Correljé (Clingendael, TU Delft) about LNG markets. In February 2016, the European Commission has published an EU strategy for liquefied natural gas and gas storage as a part of its sustainable energy security package. The LNG is perceived as an important element f...

At the margins of the residential part of the Annual Training on the Regulation of Energy Utilities, Maria Olczak (FSR) discusses with Sergio Ascari (FSR; REF, Ricerche per l’Economia e la Finanza) current developments in Ukrainian gas market. In June 2017, at the latest meeting of the Eastern Partnership Platform 3 on Energy Security, the FSR has presented its recent study on Ukrainian gas market...

In this podcast, Szymon Zaręba from the Polish Institute of International Affairs discusses the legislative developments surrounding the controversial Opal gas pipeline. The Opal pipeline was established in 2011 to export natural gas from the Nord Stream 1 pipeline across Germany to the Czech border, with it currently connecting with the JAGAL and STEGAL pipelines in Germany. Given the EU’s long-s...

In 2016, Ukraine proposed for the re-establishment of an independent national energy and utilities regulatory body. The Draft Law No 2966-d, “On the National Commission for State Regulation of Energy and Public Utilities Sector”, was signed into law by the President of Ukraine on 22 November 2016 following a decade-long campaign. This marks a significant step toward creating a competitive energy m...

There is no single way to organize the electricity industry at the world level. In the EU the industry is liberalized and the competitive segments are unbundled from those related to the management and planning of the grid. On the contrary, in countries such as Thailand one or few vertically integrated companies are responsible for the whole supply chain, i.e. from the generation to the transmissi...

Maria Olczak (FSR) and Dr. Niko Bosnjak (Energy Policy Manager at ONTRAS) discuss the integration of Electricity and Gas Networks. The rapid deployment of energy from renewable sources helps to tackle climate change, but at the same time poses new challenges to existing networks and the entire energy industry. One of them is the intermittency of renewables, since their output depends on the availa...

Nicolò Rossetto (FSR Energy) and Josh Roberts (REScoop.eu) talk about the role of energy cooperatives in Europe and the role that local energy communities could play in the near future. According to Dr Roberts, citizens are getting more and more active in the energy markets, and they can play, via cooperatives and local communities, an important role in the energy transition. However, an adequate...

Nicolò Rossetto (FSR Energy) and Andrea Villa (Enel) discuss the proposal on local energy communities by the European Commission. Engaging more citizens and energy customers is an important move to achieve an efficient internal market for energy and foster the transition to a decarbonised economy. At the same time, the multiplication of entities in the electricity system, each of them with specifi...

Maria Olczak (FSR) and Peter Fraser (Head of Gas, Coal and Power Markets Division at IEA) discuss the key messages coming from the latest edition of World Energy Outlook published on 14 November 2017. The major observed shifts include: massive deployment and failing costs of clean energy technologies, mainly solar; the significant growth in the electrification of energy; and the changing landscape...

In this podcast, Dijana Dmitruk, legal advisor of the Danish Energy Agency, discusses the Danish-German cooperation agreement for mutually opened auctions of solar photovoltaics (PVs). This significant agreement allows projects located in Germany to receive support payments from the Danish state and vice versa, and may operate as a blueprint for future cooperation agreements. While cross-border co...

ENERGY REGULATION TRAINING – INDIAN OCEAN at Mauritius, July 20-21, 2017. In cooperation with Indian Ocean Commission (IOC) This blended training cycle consisted of three blocks specifically designed to meet the learning objectives of the Indian Ocean participants. The first block was a three-day kick-off residential training which provided an introduction to power systems and grid regulation; ren...

On the sidelines of the Florence School of Regulation Young Researcher’s Seminar, Pradyumna Bhagwat (FSR) and Joe Perkins (OFGEM) discuss the topics of electrical storage and electric mobility. Batteries can be expected to play a key role in providing balancing services. The trickier question is about “time-shifting”: whether batteries will provide intraday time shifting or even over a longer peri...

In this podcast, Antonis Metaxas and Maria Charontaki discuss the implications of the Winter Package for the Greek energy market before considering the recent legislative amendment of the Electricity Customer Supply Code. The revision aims to strengthen consumer rights by promoting a greater level of transparency as regards energy consumption, improving consumer protection, and facilitating fair c...

During a conference in Milan Ilaria Conti, Head of Gas at the Florence School of Regulation, interviewed Daniele Agostini (ENEL), the head of ENEL Low-carbon and EU Energy Policy. Gas and electricity utilities are currently undergoing a deep restructuring – imposed by the changes that occurred at macroeconomic and regulatory level. In particular, the pressure coming from the decarbonisation challe...

In the context of the first FSR Young Researcher Seminar (http://fsr.eui.eu/event/fsr-researcher-seminar/) held on 4-5 July 2017 in Florence, Luca Lo Schiavo, Infrastructure Regulation Deputy Director and Head of Innovative Regulation Unit at AEEGSI, has been interviewed about the Italian experience with smart meters by Tim Schittekatte (FSR). Italy is an interesting case as it can be considered a...

The regional approach to the internal energy market: by what means? | Alberto Pototschnig (ACER) At the end of the Annual Conference of ACER near Ljubljana, Nicolò Rossetto (FSR) and Alberto Pototschnig, the Director of the Agency for the Cooperation of the Energy Regulators (ACER), discuss the regional dimension of the internal energy market. Currently, there is a consensus that the EU has to mov...

At the margins of the RTE executive seminar, Nicolò Rossetto (FSR) talks with Jean-Francois Gahungu (Coreso) about the cooperation of electricity transmission system operators at the regional level. Initiatives like the creation of Coreso in 2008 was undertaken by TSOs to ensure security of supply through better coordination and avoid disruptions to the supply of electricity like the one that happ...

On the sidelines of the FSR Executive Seminar on EU Power system operation and solidarity: the issues and practices, Pradyumna Bhagwat (FSR) and Jens Møller Birkebækt (Energinet.dk) discuss the regional operation of EU power systems. It can be expected that with growing interdependencies of markets and renewable implementation, there would be greater dependence on regional coordination of all acti...

After attending a conference jointly organised by Eurelectric and the Florence School of Regulation on the electricity market design of the future, Pradyumna Bhagwat (FSR) and Nicolò Rossetto (FSR) summarise their main takeaways. First, thinking out of the box is fundamental. We live in transformative times and electricity markets must be able to manage uncertainty and adapt to new, unpredictable...

Catalyst of the utilities’ transformation: the case of new York | Scott Weiner (New York Public Service Commission) During a conference at Columbia University Jean-Michel Glachant, director of the Florence School of Regulation, met with Scott Weiner, the deputy for market and innovation at the New York Public Service Commission. With the major wave of changes in energy transition (the three Ds: de...

Energy regulation in a federal country: the case of California | Chairman Michael Picker (CPUC) Jean-Michel Glachant, Director of the Florence School of Regulation, and Michael Picker, Chairman of the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), discuss the roles the different levels of government play in managing the changes due to the energy transition (decarbonisation, decentralisation and di...

PETER FRASER on the need for greater consumer participation in decision-making regarding the security of supply in the electricity markets of the future. On the sidelines of the EURELECTRIC – FSR conference on the market design of the future, Pradyumna Bhagwat (FSR) interviewed Peter Fraser, Head of the Gas, Coal and Power Markets Division at the International Energy Agency (IEA), on the need for...

At the end of the EURELECTRIC – FSR conference on the market design of the future, Nicolò Rossetto (FSR) and Professor Graham Weale (Bochum University) discuss the market design for electricity in 2050. Despite the relevance the European Commission attributed to scarcity prices, Professor Weale is sceptical of the idea that energy-only markets will be enough to induce and remunerate adequate inves...

Description: Nicolò Rossetto (FSR) and Jean-Michel Glachant (FSR) discuss the role of the Florence Forum in the development of an internal market for electricity. Following an intense exchange of views on the European Commission’s proposal on regional cooperation and ROCs, Glachant highlights the need for coordination tools, cost and benefit sharing principles and solidarity at the European level....