Reports
Customers
Digitalisation as a Driver for Better Retail Market Functioning
Drawing from the CEER’s and the European Consumer Organisation´s (BEUC’s) “2030 Vision for Energy Consumers: LET´S ASPIRE!”, this paper presents CEER’s views on digitalisation challenges f...
Customers
Joint Common Principles for Enhanced Consumer Protection this Winter
In a common effort supported and initiated by the European Commission, CEER, BEUC, Eurelectric, Eurogas, EER, EU DSO Entity, E.DSO, GEODE and CEDEC encourage companies, regulators and consumer organis...
Customers
Renewal of Joint Common Principles for Enhanced Consumer Protection this Winter
Building on the success of the joint declaration signed in December 2022, CEER, BEUC, Eurelectric, Eurogas, EER, EU DSO Entity, E.DSO, GEODE and CEDEC, renew their commitment to encourage companies, r...
Customers
Guidelines of Good Practice on Future-proof Comparison Tools in the Energy Sector
This is the second update of the CEER Guidelines of Good Practice for Future-proof Comparison Tools. This report puts forward a set of 20 updated recommendations on best market practices concerning en...
Cross Sectoral
What Regulators Stood for in the First Half of 2022
This paper reviews the work CEER delivered in the first half of 2022 on topics ranging from customers and retail energy markets to gas and gas decarbonisation, as well as on cross-sectoral issues. CEE...
Cross Sectoral
CEER report “Dynamic NRAs to Boost Innovation”
This document presents the state of play of Dynamic Regulation from NRAs’ perspective. It highlights the understanding, main developments and approaches of Dynamic Regulation in the energy sector. T...
Cross Sectoral
CEER Paper on Regulatory Sandboxes in Incentive Regulation
This paper seeks to provide clarity and a framework for the different tools (including sandboxes) that energy national regulatory authorities NRAs can use to facilitate innovation in the context of in...
Gas
CEER Reflection Paper on Regulation of Long-Term Energy Storage from a Sector-Coupling Perspective: Lessons from gas storage
This document presents CEER’s reflections on the regulation of long-term energy storage from a sector-coupling perspective and the lessons learnt from gas storage. It is intended to serve as a backg...
Electricity
ACER CEER Reflection on EC offshore strategy
In this Reflection Paper, ACER and CEER broadly support the European Commission’s envisaged approach towards creating offshore bidding zones to integrate offshore renewable energy from hybrid system...
Customers
CEER Roadmap to 2025 Well-Functioning Retail Energy Markets 2020 Self-Assessment Status Report
This is the third status report done by CEER, with the present report based on data from the self-assessment performed in 23 European countries. The main purpose is to share experiences and showcase t...
Cross Sectoral
CEER Analysis of the COVID-19 Pandemic’s Effects on the Energy Sector – Second Report
With this report, CEER continues its analysis of the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the energy sector. The report is based on the replies of 24 regulatory authorities and covers a period ranging...
Cross Sectoral
CEER Report on Regulatory Frameworks for European Energy Networks 2021
The Report on Regulatory Frameworks for European Energy Networks 2021 analyses different regulatory systems of electricity and gas networks (at the TSO and DSO level) in most EU Member States, Great B...
Cross Sectoral
What Regulators Stood for in the Second Half of 2021
This paper reviews CEER’s work in the second half of 2021 and brings out main messages....
Electricity
CEER Report on Redispatching Arrangements in Europe against the Background of the Clean Energy Package Requirements
This document presents the redispatching requirements laid out in Article 13 of the updated Regulation (EU) 2019/943 of 5 June 2019 on the internal market for electricity,. The report provides a compa...
Cross Sectoral
CEER 2nd Paper on Unsupported RES
This document presents an updated assessment of the status quo of formally supported RES installation in Europe. A first CEER paper (C19-RES-64-04a) on the topic was published in May 2020.
This pap...
Cross Sectoral
CEER Report on Innovative Business Models and Consumer Protection Challenges
This document presents CEER’s assessment of innovative business models and their impact on regulatory frameworks as well as their implications for consumer protection. The report provides key takeaw...
Cross Sectoral
What Regulators Stood for in the First Half of 2021
This paper reviews CEER’s work and brings out CEER’s main messages from first half of 2021....
Electricity
CEER Status Review of Renewable Support Schemes in Europe for 2018 and 2019
This document constitutes the latest update to the regular CEER Status Reviews of Renewable Energy Support Schemes in Europe and builds on the previous CEER reports.
The data in RES support schemes i...
Cross Sectoral
CEER 2022-2025 Strategy Empowering Consumers for the Energy Transition
This document presents the Council of European Energy Regulator’s (CEER) strategy “Empowering Consumers for the Energy Transition”. The basis of the Strategy is that European energy regulators,...
Electricity
CEER Response to the European Commission ASSET Study on Regulatory Priorities for Enabling Demand Side Flexibility
In this document, CEER responds to the European Commission ASSET Study on Regulatory Priorities for Enabling Demand Side Flexibility (DSF) which was published in November 2020....
Electricity
CEER Report on Long-Term Generation Investment Signals in a Market with High Shares of Renewables
This report shares some considerations on whether the market framework currently in place in Europe is fit for the steady development of renewable energy, and if it will carry the necessary long-term...
Cross Sectoral
CEER Report on Monitoring NRAs’ Independence
This document discusses the organisational framework within which Europe’s national energy regulators (NRAs) operate. It shines a light on NRAs’ tasks and powers, resources, independence, accounta...
Cross Sectoral
CEER Approach to More Dynamic Regulation
This note gives an initial look at the use of dynamic regulation tools amongst NRAs and related considerations...
Cross Sectoral
CEER First Analysis of the COVID-19 Pandemic’s Effects on the Energy Sector
This document presents CEER’s first analysis of the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the energy sector. This interim report seeks to highlight the pandemic’s impact on the energy market as a wh...