Bratislava welcomed the energy regulation world on April 27 morning. Three hundred participants — 125 regulatory delegates from 48 countries across five continents — gathered in the Slovak capital for the 23rd ERRA Annual Conference, held under the patronage of Prime Minister Robert Fico and hosted by ÚRSO Chairman Jozef Holjenčík. The numbers alone signalled that this was no ordinary edition: it also marked 25 years since ERRA was born in Bucharest, Romania, and grew into what its Chair called a respected and influential institution centred in Budapest.
Across two days, eight substantive sessions, two parallel gas tracks, and a closing governance panel, the conference assembled regulators, network operators, market designers, nuclear engineers, battery manufacturers, and energy traders around a single question: how should energy regulation transform itself to match the transformation of the energy system it governs
