The RES WG focuses on the legislative and regulatory mechanisms used to promote renewable electricity generation, energy efficiency and RES deployment in the Mediterranean area, with attention to off-grid solutions and independent power producers (IPPs).

In the last few years, the RES WG has focused its activities on analysing the state of play of deployment of innovative technologies such as smart meters and smart grids in the Mediterranean region, deepening their impact in reducing electricity prices as well as evaluating potential regulatory measures to overcome limitations to their deployment.

• Report on “Green Electricity Trading in the Mediterranean Region”: The study will analyse the enabling requirements for the trading of green electricity between northern and southern shore countries. It will assess the existing electricity trading in each subregion and identify the challenges and barriers faced by the members. The report will also provide recommendations to improve the existing regulatory framework while including guidelines for the implementation of green electricity trading, tackling both generation and consumption/exportation.
• Workshop on “Energy Storage”: it will present MEDREG’s 2024 report on that subject completed by private sector expert views on the development of energy storage technologies.
• Report on "The Regulation of Hydrogen and How to Penetrate the Existing Gas Markets".

• Implementation of harmonised regulatory options to promote RES in a cost-effective way.
• Implementation of advanced distributed generation, grid parity and net metering frameworks in Mediterranean electricity systems. 
• Evaluation of the costs associated with the fulfilment of national RES targets
• Promotion of the exchange of information, knowledge and experiences.
• Assessment of the social impact associated with RES promotion and development in each member country.
• Study the best options to promote RES in isolated systems when required.

• Benchmark RES electricity (update 2018 data).
• Analyse improvement of energy efficiency by smart grids, smart metering and energy service companies and the cost that such an improvement in network.
• Analyse main regulatory mechanisms such as: environment protection; promotion of Renewable Energy Sources (RES) and Combined Heat and Power (CHP); energy efficiency promotion including integration to the grids and smart metering issues and their impact of costs.
• Promote the exchange of information, knowledge and experiences and evaluate the results of the different mechanisms in the national contexts, analysing success factors and critical issues.
• Analyse the possible effects of the introduction at a national level of successful RES mechanisms adopted in other countries