Summary

Last year witnessed a number of exiting new developments in the regulation of market arrangements in the electricity and natural gas sectors in Ireland. In the electricity sector, the Commission for Energy Regulation announced new market arrangements for wholesale trading of electricity with a view to advancing progress towards full opening of the electricity market in 2005. This followed an earlier the decision of the Commission for Energy Regulation, as part of its ongoing review of market arrangements in the Irish gas market, to move from the existing point-to-point regime to an ...