Reports
Gas
Impact assessment for Guidelines for Good Practice for Gas Balancing
This report assesses the potential impact of making the ERGEG Guidelines for Good Practice for Gas Balancing (E07-GFG-17-04) binding. The report notes that the quantitative impact of making the GGPG...
Gas
Treatment of New Infrastructure
ERGEG has been asked to submit to the Commission its view on Art. 22 EC/2003/55 and a possible change of the legal framework with respect to investment issues. This paper summarizes the results of ERG...
Electricity
Towards Voltage Quality Regulation in Europe – An ERGEG Conclusions Paper
This conclusions paper presents regulators' recommendations on what they see as necessary revisions to CENELEC’s voltage quality standard EN 50160. The Report underlines the basic principles of the...
Electricity
Compliance with Electricity Regulation 1228/2003 – An ERGEG Monitoring Report
ERGEG has monitored the compliance of Member States, regulators and TSOs with the obligations of Electricity Regulation 1228/2003 in the areas of Inter-Transmission System Operator Compe...
Gas
Compliance with Transparency Requirements of Gas Regulation 1775/2005/EC
This report monitors the transparency requirements outlined in Gas Regulation 1775/2005/EU using the 15 April 2007 as a cut-off date (where applicable) for 43 European TSOs. Overall compliance is unsa...
Gas
Gas Transmission Tariffs – An ERGEG Benchmarking Report
This benchmark study compares transmission tariffs and balancing penalties of six European TSOs. Findings of this Report show that there are still large differences in tariffs and balancing penalties...
Customers
Status review on end user prices regulation
ERGEG has reviewed the status of end-user price regulation for electricity and natural gas in EU27. The survey assesses the effects on market functioning of Member States' maintaining regulated energy...
Gas
ERGEG Guidelines of Good Practice – Open Season Procedures (GGPOS)
The Draft GGPOS were issued for public consultation in 2006. To view the consultation documents, please click here...
Gas
Open Season Procedures – ERGEG Guidelines
Here is the final ERGEG Guidelines for Good Practice on Open Season Procedures (GGPOS). The consultation paper and responses by stakeholders are also available in the Public Consulation section....
Customers
GGP and Status Review – Obstacles to switching in the gas retail market
These Guidelines of Good Practice and accompanying Status Review present additional recommendations to the three sets of best practice propositions (BPPs) presented by ERGEG in 2006. They bring forwar...
Electricity
Cross-Border Framework for Electricity Network Infrastructure: Conclusions Paper
This advice to the European Commission includes key recommendations on:
- Buildings and construction authorisations and permissions to build new electricity lines need to be clarified and speeded u...
Electricity
Blackout of 4 November 2006: ERGEG final report
ERGEG has submitted to Commissioner Piebalgs (6 February 2007) the ERGEG Final Report on the lessons to be learned from the large disturbance in European power supply on 4 November 2006. The ERGEG Int...
Electricity
Customers
ERGEG Customer Information Handbook
In the framework of the opening of residential electricity and natural gas markets for all European countries from 1 July 2007, ERGEG carried out a survey on Pre-Contractual Information (PCI). The mai...
Electricity
Compatibility of National Legal Conditions concerning Regulatory Competences
This report on the compatibility of electricity regulators' powers identifies the gaps between the reality and the desired set of competencies of regulators and makes recommendations on how to close t...
Electricity
ERGEG advice on Guidelines for Transmission Tarification – Application of G-charge across the EU
In July 2005, ERGEG gave advice to the European Commission on Transmission Tarification Guidelines. The objective of these guidelines was, as a first step, to harmonise charges paid by generation (G...
Electricity
ERGEG Guidelines of Good Practice on Electricity Balancing Market Integration
These GGP constitute the ERGEG advice to the European Commission on electricity balancing market integration addressed in the Electricity Directive and in line with the Congestion Management Guideline...
Gas
ERGEG Guidelines of Good Practice for Gas Balancing (GGPGB)
The Draft GGP GB were issued for public consultation in 2005. To view the consultation documents, please click here
Since the publication of the GGP-GB, ERGEG has monitored their implementation. To...
Gas
Gas Transmission pricing (for Transit)
Here is the final ERGEG report on transmission pricing (for transit) and how it interacts with Entry-Exit systems. After a public consulation process, this report identifies key requirements on how tr...
Gas
Gas Balancing: ERGEG Guidelines 2006
The final GGPGB represent ERGEG’s advice to the European Commission on its interpretation of Article 7 of the Gas Regulation. They are applicable from their publication date (15 December 2006) and c...