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Assessment (1)
Since 1999, regular annual “benchmarking” reports
In 2006, additional country reviews and the sector inquiry
Assessment (2)
Positive results of competition – Efficiency
– Efficiency improvements in energy supply
– Savings to customers
– Recent increases in wholesale electricity and gas prices
– Questionable competitive process
Assessment (3)
Positive results of competition – Security of supply
– Contributions to security of supply
– Large EU market incentive for new investment
– New investment responding to the price signals
– Problems in Member States with tightly controlled prices
– Competitive markets encourage diversification
Investment underway or being planned
Not considered only a national issue,
beyond powers of any individual country
Lack of co-ordination
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Outlook and Perspectives (4)
Assessment (4)
Positive results of competition – Sustainability
– renders supply of energy efficient
– eliminates undue monopoly profits
– fair access to customers
– efficient application of policy instruments
» emission trading scheme
» energy taxation
– clearer signals energy efficiency.
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Outlook and Perspectives (5)
Assessment (5)
improper implementation of the current legal framework
– 34 infringement procedures against 20 Member States (April
2006)
– 26 reasoned opinions to 16 Member States (12 December
2006)
– all the biggest Member States included
Main deficiencies:
– Regulated prices preventing entry from new market players
– Insufficient unbundling
– Discriminatory third party access
– Insufficient competences of the regulators
– No information given to the Commission on public service
obligations
– Insufficient indication of the origin of electricity
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Outlook and Perspectives (6)
Assessment (6)
Obstacles to competition
– Large and/or vertically integrated companies at advantage in terms of
the information
– Remaining confusion within the vertically integrated group about
responsibilities
– TSOs failed to create conditions conducive to liquid competitive
markets
– TSOs and regulators tend to be oriented to short term national
concerns
– Certain regulators constrained in their relations with the industry
– Regulators under direct or indirect influence from national
governments
– Concentrated national markets
– Smaller Member States often struggled to introduce meaningful
competition
– Preparation of DSOs for the opening of
competition to households
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Outlook and Perspectives (7)
Dr.-Ing.Consulting
Joachim Müller-Kirchenbauer
für Energiewirtschaft
und -technik GmbH
CONSENTEC GmbH, Aachen
Grüner Weg 1
D-52070 Aachen
Tel: +49.241.93836-24
E-mail: jmk@consentec.de