Ensuring Investments in a Liberalised Electricity Sector
Article from: OGEL 3 (2004), in Electricity Law and Regulation
Introduction
The European Union is in the process of changing its electricity markets from many more or less separate monopolistic electricity markets with national supply of electricity, into one single liberalised market. The implementation of the first liberalisation Directive (96/92/EC) has resulted in fully liberalised electricity markets in some Member States, while there are still markets where not all parts of the liberalisation aspects are in place yet. With the new electricity market Directive (2003/54/EC), the process to integrate the national electricity markets (in parallel with ...