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.
Transmission system operators (TSOs) submitted a proposal to ACER to revise the harmonised allocation rules (HAR) and the requirements for the single allocation platform (SAP). ACER will open a public consultation.
In summer 2024, Southeast Europe experienced a sustained period of electricity price spikes. ACER sets out recommendations to increase cross-zonal capacity and system flexibility across the region.
