ERRA Member Regulators' Role and Engagement in National Climate Action Goals

Conclusions and recommendations by Dr. Péter Kaderják, ERRA’s Former Chairman

The ERRA Secretariat launched a survey to assess the current status of members’ engagement in domestic climate action/decarbonization goals’ and targets’ imposition. The survey also served the purposes of verifying members’ interest in the field, in order to be able to further develop future program agendas. This report presents the results and findings stemming from the submitted answers.

In terms of the scope of the survey, the document first inquired about regulators’ mandates towards national climate action plans/goals and then focused on exploring specific regulatory engagements (roles, decisions, achievements, plans) in the area of decarbonization. The latter translated into an analysis of regulatory involvement in particular actions, technologies and solutions: network planning and development; renewable energy sources; mini-grids/energy communities; demand-side management; digitalization; alternative fuels and energy efficiency. Lastly, the survey allowed for sharing organization’s anticipated challenges and/or obstacles hindering decarbonisation, current or future role in carbon pricing schemes and proposals towards the decarbonization agenda within ERRA’s framework.