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Probes confront EU market barriers

The European Commission’s antitrust investigation into EPEX Spot has revealed barriers for the integration of renewables in wholesale power markets. Challenges appear in a range of European marketplaces, but investigations and reforms appear to be clearing barriers to entry.
By
Andreas Walstad
Systemsicherheit
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The European Commission (EC) announced in late March that it had opened a formal investigation into EPEX Spot to assess whether the Paris-registered power exchange had been taking advantage of its dominant position on intraday markets in at least six EU member states: Germany, France, the Netherlands, Austria, Belgium, and Luxembourg. On intraday markets, sellers …

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