08/10/24 (Agence Europe) – On Friday 4 October, the Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) welcomed the decision by Spain’s national regulator, the Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (CNMC), to impose a fine of €1,081,502 on Neuro Energía y Gestión for manipulating the Spanish electricity market between 23 August 2022 and 15 March 2023. In its decision, the CNMC found that Neuro Energía y Gestión had breached Article 5 of the REMIT regulation aimed at protecting the integrity and transparency of EU wholesale energy markets (see EUROPE 13393/34) by issuing and withdrawing inauthentic orders using the digital certificates of 34 other market agents in order to be in an advantageous position to execute cross-border sales with France. To see the decision (in Spanish): https://aeur.eu/f/dr6 (PLD)