ACER recommends aligning the Swedish gas transmission tariffs with the Network Code's requirements

Today, ACER releases its report on the Swedish gas transmission tariffs, directed at the Swedish Energy Markets Inspectorate (EI), the National Regulatory Authority (NRA), and Swedegas, the Transmission System Operator (TSO) of Sweden.

The report evaluates the compliance of the proposed methodology with the requirements of the Network Code on Harmonised Transmission Tariff Structures (NC TAR).

What are the key findings?

After analysing the proposed methodology, ACER concludes that:

• The methodology used to determine the actual reference prices for the Swedish transmission network (referred to as the “applied methodology”) differs from the one presented in the public consultation.
• The consultation does not include the information requested in Article 26(1) of the NC TAR, as the details provided do not refer to the methodology applied to derive the reference prices.
• The TSO's continual revenue under-recovery questions whether its costs correspond to those of an efficient and structurally comparable network operator.
• There is no information on the applied methodology to conclude whether it complies with the NC TAR (Article 7) and satisfy the conditions for accessing gas transmission networks (Article 13 of Regulation (EC) No 715/2009).

What does ACER recommend?

ACER recommends that the NRA (or the TSO, as decided by the NRA) conduct a consultation on the applied methodology in the Swedish transmission network, following the requirements of the NC TAR.

ACER invites the NRA to repeat the consultation next year, considering that the NC TAR prescribes tariffs to be set at least every five years. This threshold has already passed at the time of this report’s publication.

Access all ACER reports on national tariff consultation documents.