The European network of electricity transport grid managers (ENTSO-E) called on Friday 13 October for regional cooperation forums to be set up among ministries, national regulators and transport grid managers (GRT) to make progress in achieving a single energy market.
Governments, regulators and TSOs have not only to interact efficiently on the national and European levels. They should also form efficient regional structures. ENTSO-E calls these structures Regional Energy Forums (REFs), which would coordinate policies in a region on important issues such as capacity mechanisms, energy mix, renewables integration, loop flows, bidding zones, etc, explains ENTSO-E.
The association has published a document listing a series of existing regional settings that could serve as inspirations for the REFs which, ENTSO-E says, should work bottom up-and in full transparency.
‘Regional energy forums would unite the political, regulatory and technical perspectives in regions; bridging the gap between the national and the European levels and contributing to deepen the energy relations in Europe. We see today that challenges on several borders can’t be addressed properly without such regional architecture,’ says Laurent Schmitt, Secretary General of ENTSO-E.
The report can be found at: https://goo.gl/CeshhY . (Original version in French by Emmanuel Hagry)