Reports
ERGEG Position Paper on Smart Metering with a Focus on Electricity Regulation
Starting with the analysis of existing or planned smart metering schemes, this document lists some recommendations for regulators and some policy options adoptable by them, according to both types of...
Secondary Markets – the way to deal with contractual congestion on interconnection points – an ERGEG Conclusions paper
ERGEG has prepared a Conclusions paper assessing the results of its public consultation on secondary markets (E07-GFG-22-14b). ERGEG received 16 responses out of which 14 were non-confidential and t...
Additional Transparency Monitoring Report
Following the publication of the Compliance with Transparency Requirements of Gas Regulation 1775/2005/EC - An ERGEG Monitoring Report, (E07-TRA-02-03), ERGEG has prepared the Additional Transparency...
ERGEG’s response to the EC’s public consultation “Towards a European Charter of the Rights of Energy Consumers”
ERGEG's response to the European Commission’s public consultation document "Towards a European Charter of the Rights of Energy Consumers", welcomes the Commission's initiative to address the need fo...
Impact assessment for Guidelines for Good Practice for Gas Balancing
This report assesses the potential impact of making the ERGEG Guidelines for Good Practice for Gas Balancing (E07-GFG-17-04) binding. The report notes that the quantitative impact of making the GGPG...
Treatment of New Infrastructure
ERGEG has been asked to submit to the Commission its view on Art. 22 EC/2003/55 and a possible change of the legal framework with respect to investment issues. This paper summarizes the results of ERG...
Towards Voltage Quality Regulation in Europe – An ERGEG Conclusions Paper
This conclusions paper presents regulators' recommendations on what they see as necessary revisions to CENELEC’s voltage quality standard EN 50160. The Report underlines the basic principles of the...
Compliance with Electricity Regulation 1228/2003 – An ERGEG Monitoring Report
ERGEG has monitored the compliance of Member States, regulators and TSOs with the obligations of Electricity Regulation 1228/2003 in the areas of Inter-Transmission System Operator Compe...
Compliance with Transparency Requirements of Gas Regulation 1775/2005/EC
This report monitors the transparency requirements outlined in Gas Regulation 1775/2005/EU using the 15 April 2007 as a cut-off date (where applicable) for 43 European TSOs. Overall compliance is unsa...
Gas Transmission Tariffs – An ERGEG Benchmarking Report
This benchmark study compares transmission tariffs and balancing penalties of six European TSOs. Findings of this Report show that there are still large differences in tariffs and balancing penalties...
Status review on end user prices regulation
ERGEG has reviewed the status of end-user price regulation for electricity and natural gas in EU27. The survey assesses the effects on market functioning of Member States' maintaining regulated energy...
ERGEG Guidelines of Good Practice – Open Season Procedures (GGPOS)
The Draft GGPOS were issued for public consultation in 2006. To view the consultation documents, please click here...
Open Season Procedures – ERGEG Guidelines
Here is the final ERGEG Guidelines for Good Practice on Open Season Procedures (GGPOS). The consultation paper and responses by stakeholders are also available in the Public Consulation section....
GGP and Status Review – Obstacles to switching in the gas retail market
These Guidelines of Good Practice and accompanying Status Review present additional recommendations to the three sets of best practice propositions (BPPs) presented by ERGEG in 2006. They bring forwar...
Cross-Border Framework for Electricity Network Infrastructure: Conclusions Paper
This advice to the European Commission includes key recommendations on:
- Buildings and construction authorisations and permissions to build new electricity lines need to be clarified and speeded u...
Blackout of 4 November 2006: ERGEG final report
ERGEG has submitted to Commissioner Piebalgs (6 February 2007) the ERGEG Final Report on the lessons to be learned from the large disturbance in European power supply on 4 November 2006. The ERGEG Int...
ERGEG Customer Information Handbook
In the framework of the opening of residential electricity and natural gas markets for all European countries from 1 July 2007, ERGEG carried out a survey on Pre-Contractual Information (PCI). The mai...
Compatibility of National Legal Conditions concerning Regulatory Competences
This report on the compatibility of electricity regulators' powers identifies the gaps between the reality and the desired set of competencies of regulators and makes recommendations on how to close t...
ERGEG advice on Guidelines for Transmission Tarification – Application of G-charge across the EU
In July 2005, ERGEG gave advice to the European Commission on Transmission Tarification Guidelines. The objective of these guidelines was, as a first step, to harmonise charges paid by generation (G...
ERGEG Guidelines of Good Practice on Electricity Balancing Market Integration
These GGP constitute the ERGEG advice to the European Commission on electricity balancing market integration addressed in the Electricity Directive and in line with the Congestion Management Guideline...