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Annual license fee to the EWRC

The Energy and Water Regulatory Commission (EWRC) reminds that by 25.03.2022 the licensed companies in the energy sector should submit a report for determining their annual license fee for 2021. The first installment of the annual license fee should be transferred to the EWRC...

OPCOM will no longer be monopoly trading platform in Romania

In article published by SEE Energy News is pointed out that the National Energy Regulatory Authority (ANRE) is preparing licensing orders, which could allow several electricity market operators to manage day-ahead or intraday electricity markets. The new secondary legislation...

Applications to ESO for over 15 000 MW of renewable energy capacities

According to the 24 chasa newspaper, the Electricity System Operator has received applications for the construction of 15 200 MW of capacity using renewable energy sources (RES) in the last 3 years. Since the beginning of 2022, 7 preliminary contracts have been concluded with ESO...

EC with an opinion on the ban on merging of balancing groups

Amendments to the Electricity Trading Rules (ETR) adopted in December banned the merging of balancing groups on the free electricity market. The main reason why the majority of market participants opposed such a ban at the time was that it would lead to an increase in balancing...

Bulgarian electricity market facing new challenges

The article was published in the February issue of Utilities magazine. After the relatively calm market situation at the end of December and the beginning of January, the topic of the electricity prices again creates tension. The reason is not only the newly reached price...

The compensation program continues

“About BGN 940 million are provided as compensation for end consumers in Bulgaria, approximately 350 BGN million for DSOs and about 20 BGN million for gas. Up to 2 BGN billion is the buffer provided by the state budget.” the energy minister said. He pointed out that...

The new management of the Regulator and the state-owned companies

Energy and Water Regulatory Commission The amendments to the Energy Act reducing the number of members of the Energy and Water Regulatory Commission from 9 to 5, were published in the State Gazette. Thus, the mandates of two of the members are terminated – the one with...

Changes to the REMIT reporting to the EWRC

The Energy and Water Regulatory Commission (EWRC) published a draft amendment to Ordinance № 3 of 21.03.2013 on licensing of energy activities. The proposed amendments concern the obligations of market participants related to the rules and procedures for the identification,...

Uniform format for data exchange

From the beginning of April 2022, the implementation of stage 1 of the introduction of the uniform format for data exchange is expected to go-live. This is the automation of the processes of providing information between network operators (NO) and market participants (MP). Stage...

Draft bill introducing 80 % tax on the revenues from energy products in Romania

The news portal Serbia Energy informs that Romanian tax collection agency ANAF drafted a bill which introduces an 80 % tax on the revenues generated by the energy products in excess of 91 euros/MWh. The average price of electricity on the spot market in December, when 40 % of the...