The EU faces a trade-off: securing higher LNG volumes to ensure stabler pricing, while maintaining the flexibility to avoid over-contracting in a changing market.
The 40th edition covers the first quarter of 2025 and marks a decade of progress in centralised EU-wide data collection, which is essential to ensure transparent and fair wholesale energy markets.
For the first time, ACER publishes two reports on energy market surveillance, concerning: persons professionally arranging transactions and national energy regulatory authorities (focusing on their analysis of suspicious transaction and order reports).
The Baltic energy regulators (Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Sweden) requested from ACER a three-month extension to decide on the capacity calculation methodology for long-term timeframes.
ACER publishes its report on distribution system operator investments and revenue setting. This report finds a major upscaling in electricity distribution grid investment trends across Europe and proposes 10 recommendations to optimise the ramp up.
