Electricity market: no agreement yet on • Table.Briefings

The energy ministers have surprisingly not yet reached an agreement on the core of electricity market reform. The main point of contention is France’s wish to be able to subsidize existing nuclear power plants as well. However, EU ambassadors still have to negotiate about coal-fired power plants.

At the last Energy Council under the Swedish presidency, the EU energy ministers were only able to agree on parts of the reform package for the electricity market on Monday. They achieved a general orientation for the market transparency regulation REMIT and a provisional political agreement for the electricity market directive. This was announced by Sweden’s Minister Ebba Busch after long negotiations.

Electricity market: no agreement yet on nuclear power plants

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