Sectors Archives

2026-01-16

ARERA’S Investigation on Economic withholding in the Italian Day-Ahead Electricity Market (2023-2024)

This paper by Luca Lo Schiavo analyzes the fact-finding investigation of the Italian regulatory Authority (ARERA) into economic generation capacity withholding in Italy's day-ahead electricity market, examining its methodology, findings, and the resulting controversy with the generation operator.

2025-12-18

ERRA Paper: From Net Metering to Net Billing: Ensuring Fair Tariffs in the Age of Prosumers

This paper examines the regulatory shift from net metering to net billing, drawing on comparative experiences from Italy, Kosovo*, and Georgia. It places Georgia’s 2023 reform within this broader European context, emphasising both its alignment with EU principles and the remaining steps needed to fully integrate prosumers into the market.

2025-12-08

Regulatory Aspects of Balancing Services | Video Presentation

Video resentation exploring the regulatory requirements for balancing to ensure grid stability and fair market functioning.

2025-12-04

Eurelectric Position Paper: Distributed Flexibility Report

This Eurelectric's report focuses specifically on Flexibility for Distribution Grid Needs, as per the newest proposal of ENTSO-E and EU DSO Entity on the methodology for assessing flexibility needs that ACER approved in August 2025.

2025-12-02

ERRA Regulatory Story of the Quarter: The Evolution of the Battery Energy Storage Systems in Ukraine

Ukraine’s energy sector has rapidly transformed as the war revealed structural weaknesses and prompted urgent regulatory reforms. The regulator, together with the Ministry, introduced a modern regulatory framework for energy storage, recognising flexibility as a vital component of system security rather than a long-term goal. The Energy Storage Facilities Law and subsequent NEURC regulations formalised storage as an independent market participant with full access to wholesale markets, offering investors much-needed legal certainty during a time of significant system stress.

2025-11-04

Blackout in Spain – First Regulatory Considerations | Presentations & Recording

On April 28th, 2025, the whole Iberic Peninsula (Spain and Portugal) experienced its most severe blackout in history. Based on currently available research, it wasn't an excess of renewables that caused the collapse—it was the delay to integrate it properly through a modern regulation.

2025-10-30

Summary of ERRA Workshop on Renewable Collective Self-Consumption and Energy Communities 2025

The Energy Regulators Regional Association Workshop on Renewable Collective Self-Consumption and Energy Communities, held on 14 October 2025 and hosted by the Energy Market Regulatory Authority of Türkiye, offered a comprehensive platform to explore how collective energy initiatives can transform power systems towards greater decentralisation, flexibility, and citizen engagement.

2025-09-16

CRE France Report: Integration of Small Modular Reactors (SMR/AMR) into Energy Systems (available only in French language)

The Report is prepared by the Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE) on the integration of small modular reactors (SMR/AMR) into energy systems. It highlights that advanced small modular reactors (AMRs) show promise in terms of innovation and diversity of use, particularly those that produce heat at temperatures above 300°C.

2025-09-01

ERRA Regulatory Story of the Quarter: The Evolution of the Energy Market Enforcement by ERO Czech Republic

Due to energy crisis of 2021 to 2022, the Energy Regulatory Office (ERO) of the Czech Republic experienced a dramatic shift in its role as it operated almost as a “crisis hotline”. This environment created the necessity to introduce the new measures and legislative tools that make ERO more efficient and effective in its oversight activities.