Sectors Archives

2024-03-05

ERRA Benchmarking Report: Legislation, Mechanisms and Experience in Ensuring the Security of Supply of Natural Gas

In the dynamic geopolitical landscape and evolving energy sector’s architecture, ensuring the security of supply remains a top priority for policymakers and regulators. The latest ERRA Natural Gas Markets and Economic Regulation Committee’s concise benchmarking report dives into this issue and examines how 18 ERRA member countries approach this challenge from the perspective of Natural Gas supply.

2024-01-18

ERRA Report: Policy and Regulatory Lessons-learnt from Countries Spearheading Energy Transition

This report delves into the achievements of Sweden, Costa Rica, Brazil, New Zealand and Spain, which have successfully navigated the complexities of energy transition. It highlights their unique approaches and innovative solutions. These best practices can potentially guide ERRA countries in adopting effective strategies for the energy transition.

2024-01-15

Guide to Economic Regulation: How Regulators Calculate Price Controls

The focus of this booklet is price regulation. Specifically: how do regulators calculate the price controls? It aims to provide individuals working in the regulated aviation, communications, energy, rail and water sectors with an introductory guide to the principles and practices of economic regulation.

2024-01-12

Fraunhofer Study: Production, transport and supply costs of Power-to-X products for the year 2030

This study examines the production, transport and supply costs of key Power-to-X products for the year 2030. A total of 39 globally distributed regions in developing and emerging countries were therefore analyzed in terms of their renewables and Power-to-X production and supply cost potential.

2023-12-15

ERRA Regulatory Story of the Quarter: New Gas Monitoring Platform & AI Innovation Project at ANRE Romania

ERRA Regulatory Story of Q4 highlights the latest updates from ANRE Romania on Natural Gas Market reporting & Monitoring Platform and Online Tool for Changing the Supplier of electricity and natural Gas at the National Level (POSF) with AI Application.

2023-12-05

ERRA Member News: E-Control’s Own Grid Connection Action Plan

The electricity production from renewable energy sources needs to be increased by a total of 27 TWh by 2030. E-Control has developed its own grid connection action plan, which provides for a number of measures to speed up the implementation of grid connections. Efficient grid connection of PV systems requires Photovoltaics as an important building block for achieving climate goals. [Featured Image from Pixabay]

2023-12-04

CP WG Report on New Phenomena in the Energy Markets

The report examines the regulatory landscape for energy prosumers, citizen energy communities, as well as peer-to-peer trading and energy sharing across various ERRA member countries.

2023-11-29

ERRA Member News: The Development & Operation of Offshore Power Plants in Lithuania

National Energy Regulatory Council (NERC) of Lithuania adopted a Procedure for the Organisation of tenders and the Granting of Permits to Use Parts of the Maritime Area for the Development and Operation of Renewable Energy Power Plants. The process was possible based on amendments to the Law on Energy from Renewable Sources which were adopted in Lithuania in May 2022.

2023-11-28

West African bloc establishes information center to enhance coordination on electricity supply

The Information Coordination Centre (ICC) of the West Africa Power Pool (WAPP) was officially inaugurated.