On 9 May 2025, the Swedish and Lithuanian national regulatory authorities requested from ACER a six-month extension to jointly decide on electricity cross-zonal risk hedging opportunities.
ACER and the national regulatory authorities of Austria, Germany and the Netherlands have closed the cross-border investigatory group established in 2022.
On 28 April 2025, European transmission system operators published their report on the bidding zone review, assessing 14 bidding zone configurations across Central and Northern Europe. ACER will publish an Opinion to evaluate alignment with EU rules.
ACER approved two proposals from all electricity transmission system operators (TSOs) to amend the implementation frameworks for PICASSO and MARI, the EU platforms for exchanging balancing energy from frequency restoration reserves.
ACER published its Opinion on Portugal’s National Resource Adequacy Assessment (NRAA), highlighting that the country’s projected electricity adequacy gap may be overstated.
