Electricity market: Commission renounces • Table.Briefings

Promoting renewables, protecting consumers and industry from high electricity prices – these are the key points of the official Commission proposals for electricity market reform. With siting criteria for green power plants, the authority is scrapping a plan that would have caused fierce controversy in Germany in particular.

Yesterday, the EU Commission presented its proposals for reforming the electricity market. Instead of a departure from the previous market design, the package on electricity market design only provides for selective further developments of previous directives and regulations:

Electricity market: Commission renounces local control

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