EUROPE STILL HAS SIGNIFICANT WORK TO COMPLETE BEFORE HARMONISING ITS NATIONAL GRID

MARCH’S approval by the European Parliament of new European Union (EU) electricity market rules, designed to increase consumer choice, boost renewables access and cap power subsidies, were hailed by the European Commission as a new dawn for the creation of the EU’s much vaunted Energy Union. And while it is true, this package of legislation – see https://ec.europa.eu/energy/en/topics/energy-strategy-and-energy-union/clean-energy-all-europeans - does remove administrative and legal barriers between the national power systems and markets of the 28 EU member ...


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