The Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) commissioned IPA Advisory (IPA) in May 2015 to conduct a Study regarding “Ranking the competitiveness of the retail electricity and gas markets at the national level in Member States of the Union and in Norway”.
In brief, the scope of work comprises a review of relevant literature, the identification and assessment of indicators that ACER can use to evaluate retail market competition in electricity and gas, and a method for using these indicators to rank the competition performance of retail electricity and gas markets in Member States (MS) of the European Union (EU) and Norway (including a Pilot Study for a small number of countries).