The Council of European Energy Regulators (CEER) released its new report Beyond the Crisis: Consumer Protection and Market Measures for Better Functioning Markets. The report examines the measures implemented across Europe to address the challenges posed by the recent energy crisis and reflects on the lessons learned to create more consumer-centric energy markets.

Interconnection is one of the biggest obstacles to the expansion of distributed energy resources (DERs). As demand for clean energy accelerates, utilities face a glut of requests to connect DER projects to an already saturated electric grid. Without up-to-date rules tailored to current clean energy technologies and the latest best practices for integrating them on the grid, it can take months or years to bring new projects online. 

The paper provides information on the existing flexibility related data exchange that DSO's are involved with and identifies possible future involvement which also may require NRAs’ attention, while outlining some of the recent and ongoing developments at EU level.

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.

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.

Re-thinking the design of power markets with focusing on 1) Wholesale Prices 2) Investments 3) Consumers.

The report explores various regulatory and policy responses to pandemic recovery-driven market and supply chain shocks as well as the early stage of the crisis in the energy sector.

The donation through the Ukraine Energy Support Fund will be used to purchase vital emergency energy equipment and fuels to ease the hardship of Ukrainian people in anticipation of the most challenging winter in decades.

The analysis is an update of the 2020 version and provides some new comparisons on the role of smart meters in different countries’ electricity markets, leading to identify recommendations towards this hot topic.

ERRA CP WG issued a report on Price Comparison Tools to detect availability and features of PCTs as prerequisite for efficient electricity/ gas retail markets functioning.

22 regulators of the ERRA Customer Protection Working Group (CP WG) provided data to map their duties and powers, with emphasis on consumer protection, and to offer a quick glimpse into their retail markets of electricity and natural gas.