In its special report on dealing with congestion on the North-West European gas markets, published on Monday 24 July, the Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) looks back at the emergence of serious bottlenecks in Belgium, France, Germany and the Netherlands, and the ways in which transmission system operators (TSOs) and national regulatory authorities (NRAs) have dealt with them.
Before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the European gas system was primarily designed to...