ACER Publishes Its Latest Report On How Electricity Network Tariffs Are Set In Europe

What is it about?

The EU Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators' (ACER’s) report on electricity transmission and distribution tariff methodologies reviews the national practices across the EU Member States and Norway.

This third edition of ACER’s electricity network tariffs report:

Reviews the tariff methodologies across EU Member States and Norway;
Focuses on selected topics (i.e. cost models, cost cascading, injection charges, connection charges, reactive energy charges and time-of-use network tariffs); and
Provides recommendations to regulators on how to improve national tariff setting.

National regulatory authorities (NRAs) are required to take ACER’s report into consideration when fixing or approving transmission or distribution tariffs, or their methodologies.

What are the next steps?

ACER plans to continue targeted consultations with relevant stakeholders in preparation for the fourth edition of the report, planned towards the end of 2024/early 2025.