ACER Calls For Improvements To The Current TEN-E Regulation Legislative Proposal To Ensure The Best Projects For The Green Deal Are Supported

The EU Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) has published a joint position paper with CEER on how to improve the European Commission’s current proposals on the Trans-European Energy Networks (TEN-E) Regulation.

In short, ACER and energy regulators call for neutral and independent technical assessment of infrastructure projects and improved regulatory oversight so that the projects bringing most benefits for the European Green Deal are supported and to avoid any risks of unjustified costs to European consumers.

In essence, ACER and the regulators focus on 2 main issues:

• the quality of the tools to assess infrastructure needs and projects’ value according to European energy policy objectives, and

• the role of regulators and the Agency in the governance of the European Projects of Common Interest (PCI) process, ensuring they can effectively oversee TSOs’ tasks.

It sets out and makes recommendations on 6 main problems.

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