MEDREG held its 27th General Assembly on 18-19 June in Tirana, which was marked by a redoubling of the organisation’s efforts to promote and facilitate the deployment of sustainable support schemes for Renewable Energy Sources (RES).

From 10 to 12 June, 18 regulatory staff from 10 different Energy Regulatory Authorities members of MEDREG participated in Milan to a 3-day-training organised by MEDREG on the topic of the Scope and Role of Regulation.

From 19 to 21 March, the MEDREG Secretariat met with important Jordanian energy players including MEDREG’s Jordanian member EMRC, the EU delegation to Jordan and other governmental, business and institutional organisations. These various exchanges enabled MEDREG to grasp Jordan’s current energy priorities and challenges, allowing the organisation to define its support activities for the coming months in line with the actual needs of its member and in coherence with the national energy context.

Regulators’ roles and responsibilities in the process of developing effective markets is of critical importance. Abuse of market power along with the proper implementation of the legislation is one of the main issues that energy regulators have to closely monitor and supervise. Proper market monitoring is therefore a necessity in the context of electricity markets, although it faces a considerable obstacle: the calculation of the correct cost of a generation unit, which is difficult and which can be done in an arbitrary way.