Fsr Energy & Climate

The regional approach to the internal energy market: by what means? | Alberto Pototschnig (ACER) At the end of the Annual Conference of ACER near Ljubljana, Nicolò Rossetto (FSR) and Alberto Pototschnig, the Director of the Agency for the Cooperation of the Energy Regulators (ACER), discuss the regional dimension of the internal energy market. Currently, there is a consensus that the EU has to move forward with regional cooperation in the field of electricity and gas. However, it is not yet clear how to implement such regionalisation. Thus far, the experience was mainly based on voluntary initiatives like the Pentalateral Energy Forum. Discussions on the matter are ongoing, with several questions hotly debated: what aspects should be part of the regional dimension? What geographical scope should the regions have? What are the most appropriate governance and regulatory frameworks for the regions? The discussion is particularly lively in the area of electricity, where ENTSO-E and the European Commission have p