From 21 July to 15 September 2023, ACER will run a public consultation on its upcoming report on cross-border capacity in EU electricity markets in 2022, to be published on 21 July 2023.
ACER will run a Public Consultationon concrete amendment proposals on two European electricity grid connection network codes (requirements for grid connection of generators and demand connection).
On 30 May 2023 ACER approved the Transmission System Operators’ (TSOs’) proposal of 20 December 2022 to amend the methodology for calculating scheduled exchanges resulting from single day-ahead coupling (SDAC).
ACER made a focused research of how congestion emerged in the most acutely congested markets of Belgium, France, Germany and the Netherlands, and how the respective TSOs and NRAs addressed the bottlenecks.
In its 10th report on congestion in the EU gas markets, ACER finds a tripling of network congestion. ACER calls on gas TSOs and NRAs to relieve the bottlenecks.
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.
On 28 April 2025, a large-scale blackout occurred in Spain and Portugal shortly after 12.30 CEST. An expert panel is being set up by ENTSO-E to investigate the incident.
