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.
The Estonian Competition Authority has fined Futugrid Technologies OÜ €16,000 for manipulating the balancing energy market by placing a non-genuine bid, which sent misleading signals to the market.
The 2026 Monitoring Report on retail energy markets examines electricity bills, affordability and what the shift to electrification means for consumers.
