Regulators’ Green Paper: Energy Regulation:
A Bridge to 2025
Lord Mogg, CEER President
Brussels, 18 June 2014
2014 and beyond
IEM Completion - our commitment is focused on the
implementation of the Third Package
Approaching 2014 deadline - strategic foresight and vision to
guide our post-2014 work
2025 Strategy - Bridge towards the future
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The 2025 Bridge and its pillars
Green Paper: “Energy Regulation: A bridge to 2025”
Encompasses a broad range of issues
Gas
Wholesale
Markets
Electricity
Wholesale
Markets
Infrastructure
Investment
Demand
Side &
DSOs
Launch on 29 April; Responses by 16 June; Conclusions September
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Retail
Markets
Energy sector trends
 Demand response-enabling technologies will
increasingly allow all types of consumers to
contribute to system optimisation (e.g. time-ofuse pricing, demand-response contracts, load
limiters, demand reduction contracts, …)
 Consumer engagement will be increasingly
important to ensure that new relationships are
understood and that demand response matches
consumer needs (habits, load flexibility, size,
etc.)
Consumers, retail markets, the role of DSOs
and
enabling demand response will be important
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Regulatory impacts (I)
 Flexibility: ensure right price signals, remove regulatory
barriers, better forecasting and liquidity, correct use of
subsidies and state-aid
 Smarter demand side: removal of barriers, investment in
smart technology, provision of adequate regulatory
framework, facilitating innovation
 Encouraging competition: designing technology-neutral
market arrangements, appropriate wholesale gas market
arrangements, removal of market entry barriers for new gas
sources
 Empowering consumers: ensuring that consumers can
participate in the market and its development in an informed
way.
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Regulatory impacts (II)
An appropriate framework for energy customers:
 2020 Vision for Europe’s energy customers based on the 4 RASP principles remains
valid. Any regulatory framework must anchor itself to those principles
 A market in which:
• consumers can expect the Reliability of the
physical supply of energy, and the commercial
systems
• charges are clear and kept to fair and reasonable
levels (Affordability)
• Information provided such that it is easy for
consumers to understand their bill and better
manage their energy consumption (Simplicity)
• consumers are protected from unfair commercial
practices and have the possibility to participate
actively in the market (Protection and
Empowerment)
Now 17 supporters!
New: The Association of Issuing Bodies
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Next steps:
June 16:
Bridge
consultation
deadline
July 31:
CEER 2015
WP
consultation
deadline
September:
Summer:
Finalisation 2025 Bridge
of Bridge Conclusions
Paper
End 2014:
Publication
of CEER
2015 WP
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Delivering the 2020 Customer
Vision and the Bridge
CEER Work Programme 2015 :
► CEER’s views on what characterises a well-functioning retail market
► Removing barriers to entry in EU retail energy markets
► Removing barriers to customer engagement in retail markets
► Removing commercial barriers to switching in retail markets
► Updated rolling action plan to implement CEER-BEUC Consumer 2020 Vision
► Benchmarking report on accurate customer billing information
► CEER-ACER Market Monitoring Report – Consumer Chapter
► Status review on price comparison tools
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We welcome your views on the CEER 2015 Work
Programme consultation before 31 July.
www.ceer.eu
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