This publication describes a year of significant milestones in advancing a sustainable, resilient, and integrated energy system across the Mediterranean region.
It highlights MEDREG’s ongoing impact in empowering energy regulators in the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean, securing energy supply, driving decarbonisation, and protecting consumers. It also underscores key progress made in reinforcing regional electricity integration and establishing the regulatory foundations for hydrogen markets and technological innovation. Finally, it previews upcoming priorities for 2026 and beyond, emphasising the objective of actively promoting regulatory reform and facilitating private sector investment.
The document outlines the deliverables planned for 2026-2029, in the framework of the new Grant Contract IX. They are designed in accordance with the organization’s strategy and goal to foster a better investment climate for private investors, thereby increasing renewable energy production. MEDREG aims to catalyse regulatory convergence, ensuring a well-functioning, investor-attractive energy market in the Mediterranean.
MEDREG’s objective is to support its members by developing activities based on identified needs and interests. These activities include comprehensive reports, high-level workshops, specialised training events, expert missions, and study visits.
The primary goal of these outputs is to encourage members to adopt common regulatory standards. In addition, acknowledging the rapid transformation of the Mediterranean energy landscape, MEDREG maintains high flexibility in defining the scope and topics of its work. This flexible approach allows members to propose and revise activities to respond to evolving market dynamics, such as energy price volatility or emerging geopolitical challenges.
To guide its members in the clean energy transition and reduce the climate footprint of natural gas, MEDREG analysed the legal, technological, and strategic measures adopted across its member countries.
The report also identifies common challenges, showcases effective best practices, and proposes a path forward.
This path must enable the countries of the region to simultaneously achieve their nationally and internationally mandated climate goals while ensuring the robustness of their energy security.
This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the strategies deployed to mitigate both Technical Losses (TLs) and Non-Technical Losses (NTLs) across the Mediterranean electricity and gas networks.
It highlights persistent data gaps and outdated regulatory frameworks that limit effective loss management, and emphasises the need for wider deployment of Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) and increased investment in grid modernisation and smart technologies.
This report benchmarks regulatory frameworks for green electricity trading across the Mediterranean region, including EU Member States, Balkan countries, and the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean shores.
It examines renewable energy integration mechanisms, the role of Corporate Power Purchase Agreements (CPPAs), and green electricity certification schemes, highlighting key challenges and recommendations to support an integrated Mediterranean green electricity market.
In response to growing price volatility, rapid technological change, and market uncertainty, energy regulators are increasingly adopting flexible regulatory approaches. This report presents an initial assessment of regulatory frameworks applied by MEDREG members, ranging from standard- and incentive-based regulation to emerging practices in dynamic regulation. Dynamic regulation enables regulators to temporarily exempt market participants from certain rules to test innovative methods, business models, or operational practices.
This assessment informs about the current regulatory approaches applied in the Mediterranean region and sets the foundation for future work on the practical implementation of dynamic regulation, drawing on members’ experiences and best practices.
This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the adequacy mechanisms currently in use in the Mediterranean region. It examines how these mechanisms, which are crucial for ensuring a stable and reliable electricity supply, are designed, implemented, and monitored from a regulatory standpoint.
The report also addresses the challenges faced by these countries, as well as the approaches they are adopting to evolve their systems to meet new demands, particularly with the rise of renewable energy sources.
This report compiles insights from National Regulatory Authorities (NRAs), Transmission System Operators (TSOs), issuing bodies, and experts who participated in the MEDREG–Med-TSO Joint Workshop on Guarantees of Origin in the Mediterranean Region, held on 29 October 2025 in Milan.
It examines how Guarantees of Origin (GOs) support renewable energy traceability, green market integration, and cross-border power purchase agreements (PPAs) between the EU and Southern Mediterranean partners, while highlighting key challenges related to transparency, credibility, and regional interoperability.
This short publication provides an overview of energy storage and the regulatory landscape across Mediterranean countries, ranging from minimal to supportive to advanced frameworks that facilitate the development of energy storage. The snapshot also highlights the technologies in use and the challenges faced by the sector. Finally, it offers recommendations to accelerate the deployment of energy storage.
This one-page publication outlines the evolving energy landscape in the Mediterranean, reflecting the need for greener and more secure electricity grids. It highlights the growing electricity networks and cross-border integration, as well as the current state of regional interconnections.
It also presents MEDREG’s role in fostering cooperation among its North African, Middle Eastern, and EU members, supporting the EU’s new Pact for the Mediterranean.
This publication provides an overview of hydrogen strategies in MEDREG member countries, including the presence of legal frameworks supporting these strategies and the development of certification mechanisms.
It also offers a set of recommendations to advance green hydrogen across the region. The content is based on MEDREG’s 2023 Hydrogen Report, updated with data from 2025.
The 2024 edition of MEDREG’s Annual Report highlights our key initiatives throughout the year to advance regional market integration and accelerate the green energy transition across the Mediterranean.
In 2024, MEDREG worked to create a more connected and transparent energy market by:
To support a sustainable energy future, we focused on:
In addition, the report highlights our strategic partnerships and key publications released throughout the year, reflecting our continued commitment to collaboration and knowledge sharing in the region.
A MEDREG flagship report updated every two years, the MEMO report assesses the evolution of national, sub-regional, and regional electricity markets. Through a multi-dimensional analysis, the report provides a picture of the evolving trends in Mediterranean electricity markets. This latest edition sheds light on:
This document examines the current state of the market as well as opportunities for energy storage of gas and electricity, and distributed flexibility resources (DFR) across the Mediterranean region. It aims to illustrate their practical applications and associated regulatory frameworks.
The analysis is complemented by case studies from the region, showcasing the tangible benefits of these solutions in real-world scenarios. Finally, the document proposes actionable recommendations to strengthen regulations and promote the development of these technologies to unlock their full potential.
The 2024 Mediterranean Energy Regulatory Outlook provides a comprehensive assessment of energy regulation developments in the Mediterranean region. Since the 2022 edition, this update captures recent advancements from MEDREG member countries, reflecting the evolving regulatory landscape.
It introduces a set of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for power generation, transmission, distribution, and consumer services, enabling consistent comparisons and improvements across the Mediterranean energy sector. This edition also addresses the evolution of sectoral responsibilities among members, including any new sectors they now regulate in response to the energy transition and market demands.
This document provides an overview of the different types of unbundling and the nature of each. It aims to serve as a guide for countries undergoing unbundling efforts in their energy sectors, offering guidance on selecting the most suitable level of unbundling, along with the steps to achieve it.
Particular emphasis is placed on accounting unbundling, as it represents the first step towards the complete unbundling of the sector. Furthermore, the report examines the level of unbundling in the energy markets of the Mediterranean region among MEDREG members.
This document summarises the discussions from the MEDREG High-Level Workshop held in Brussels on 3 December 2024, titled “Shaping the Euro-Mediterranean Energy Market: Progress and Prospects”.
The event brought together policymakers, regulators, and industry leaders from across the Mediterranean region who addressed regional regulatory cooperation, hydrogen and clean technologies as drivers of the sustainable energy transition in the Mediterranean.
This report examines green LNG, which aims to mitigate the environmental impact of liquefied natural gas (LNG) by implementing strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions throughout the supply chain. The study investigates Mediterranean countries’ perspectives on the role of green LNG in their energy transition plans, focusing on its potential as a transitional fuel. Moreover, it assessed their readiness for a successful green LNG transition, evaluating existing infrastructure, regulatory frameworks, and technological capabilities.
This report examines the complexities of vulnerability within the energy sector, highlighting the necessity of timely identification, targeted support, and effective policies to protect at-risk consumers.
Additionally, the report addresses the concept of energy poverty, a term closely related yet distinct from “vulnerable consumers”. Addressing both categories is critical, as energy security and affordability remain pressing issues across the Mediterranean.
The study also draws recommendations to foster a unified and adaptable approach to supporting vulnerable consumers.
This report explores strategies, legal frameworks, certification mechanisms, research and development contributions, policies, regulatory measures, and financial incentives associated with the advancement of green hydrogen.
It assesses the potential for green hydrogen development, and informs about the status of hydrogen production, ongoing efforts, and forecasts future initiatives geared towards green hydrogen production. In addition, the diverse applications of hydrogen in the Mediterranean region are listed, while the drivers propelling the development of green hydrogen and the barriers hindering its widespread adoption are analysed. The report provides recommendations to stakeholders, policymakers, and industry players for advancing the sustainable use of green hydrogen.
MEDREG’s Action from 2023 – 2024
This institutional brochure offers an overview of MEDREG's activities and achievements over the past two years, showcasing its significant role in promoting market integration and advancing the clean energy transition through regulatory capacity building and collaboration. The accomplishments are presented through measurable metrics and are brought to life through testimonials from beneficiary members, highlighting the tangible impact of MEDREG’s efforts.
This publication summarises the exchanges held during MEDREG 4th Presidents’ Workshop, held on 12 June 2024 in Selinunte, which brought together energy regulators, industry representatives, policymakers and energy stakeholders from across the region to address the evolving energy landscape of the Mediterranean region.
It reports the main highlights and key messages delivered by the panellists on the following aspects:
The Annual Report presents the milestones we accomplished in 2023, forging a regulatory environment for market integration and energy transition.
It covers the work we deployed to mitigate the impacts of the energy crisis, through initiatives enhancing the resilience of energy networks and infrastructures.
The reflection around renewable gases and specifically on hydrogen also holds a significant position in last year’s activities with decarbonisation constituting a primal focus, driving initiatives to enhance energy efficiency too.
Our collaboration with regional stakeholders and our dedication to capacity building among our members also proved to be powerful means that leveraged knowledge and experience, charting the course towards a sustainable, secure, and thriving energy market in the Mediterranean.