Market and System Operators discuss Third Package transposition and implementation challenges, 05 Feb 2015 Market and Transmission System Operators of the Energy Community Contracting Parties gathered at the third meeting on market operation in Sarajevo on 4 February to discuss Third Package transposition and implementation challenges in order to ensure the smooth regicity markets. In light of Third Package transposition, […]

Market and System Operators discuss Third Package transposition and implementation challenges, 05 Feb 2015 Market and Transmission System Operators of the Energy Community Contracting Parties gathered at the third meeting on market operation in Sarajevo on 4 February to discuss Third Package transposition and implementation challenges in order to ensure the smooth regicity markets. In light of Third Package transposition, […]

Secretariat seeks stakeholder views on options for the Energy Community for the Future, 03 Feb 2015In its final report “An Energy Community for the Future”, the High Level Reflection Group concluded that the Energy Community’s ambitious goals cannot be met without reforming the organisation’s legal, procedural and institutional set-up and proposed how these shortcomings could be rectified. The public consultation, […]

EnC Secretariat opens dispute settlement case against Macedonia for postponing market opening, 30 Jan 2015Today the Secretariat sent an Opening Letter to the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia for its failure to comply with the Energy Community’s eligibility rules by postponing full opening of the electricity market. The Energy Community Treaty sets 1 January 2008 as the implementation deadline for […]

All hydrocarbon products to undergo quality testing in Albania Last Updated: 2015-01-30 07:47 | Xinhua Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama pledged on Tuesday to help improving the quality of inspection in all gas stations to curb further damage to the citizens’ vehicles, Albanian daily news reported. With a Lek 55 million (447,154 million U.S. dollars) investment, the lab has modern […]

Unlocking energy market flexibility Brussels, 29 January 2015 Demand-side flexibility means empowering consumers and reduced costs Regulators’ 2015 priorities? Competition, DSOs and Customers CEER’s1 2015 annual conference today addressed one of the big issues for 2015: energy market flexibility and demand response. This packed CEER event brought together policy makers, regulators and companies to address the challenges and innovative approaches […]

Nordpool Spot announces full REMIT RRMPOSTED BY AVIVHANDLER ⋅ JANUARY 27, 2015 Nordpool Spot have announced that they will provide a full RRM service under REMIT. The announcement can be found here. Under REMIT, Organised Market Places are obliged to “offer a data reporting agreement” to report data that arises out of activity on the venue. This announcement sees Nordpool […]

Secretariat publishes policy guidelines on independence of national regulatory authorities28 Jan 2015The Third Energy Package stipulates that the national energy regulator must be legally separated and functionally independent from any private or public entity as well as have autonomy with regard to its budget. Regulatory authorities must also exercise their powers impartially and transparently and steer clear of political influence. […]