Market Monitoring Report at a glance
The EU Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) and the Council of European Energy Regulators (CEER) monitor energy markets in the EU.
ACER’s market monitoring focuses on:
Data underpinning ACER’s analyses is available on the Market Monitoring Data page.
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Electricity
ACER monitors and reports annually on the EU (internal) markets of electricity and natural gas (our so-called Market Monitoring Reports).
During 2024, ACER publishes a series of overviews on specific aspects of the performance of the EU electricity markets in 2023, with a focus on cross-border issues:
- March: Key developments;
- June: Cross-zonal capacities and the margin available for cross-zonal electricity trade;
- October: Progress of EU electricity wholesale market integration.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
- Market Monitoring - Data
- Underlying data sets
- Methodological papers describing the underlying methodologies used
- Contact
- ACER, at the request of the European Commission, undertook (in 2022) a detailed assessment of the Electricity wholesale market design.
PREVIOUS EDITIONS
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Gas
ACER monitors and reports annually on the EU (internal) markets of electricity and natural gas (our so-called Market Monitoring Reports).
During 2024, ACER publishes a series of overviews of the functioning of gas markets and the progress towards an internal EU gas market:
- March: Analysis of LNG market developments; Key developments in EU gas wholesale markets (2023 & Q1 2024);
- July: Key developments in EU gas wholesale markets (Q2);
- October: Key developments in EU gas wholesale markets (Q3);
- November: European hydrogen markets;
- January 2025: Key developments in EU gas wholesale markets (Q4 2024).
Decarbonised Gases
The Decarbonised Gases looks at the current state of decarbonisation of the EU gas systems and their mid-term trajectoryand their trajectory frombetween now until and 2050. In particular, it analyses:
- Renewable and low carbon gases production, consumption, price levels and their mid-term prospects;
- Key regulatory provisions that will govern the access of decarbonised gases to the market;
- Infrastructure expansion required to facilitate the use of decarbonised gases and hydrogen.
Energy Retail and Consumer Protection
ACER monitors and reports annually on the EU (internal) markets of electricity and natural gas (our so-called Market Monitoring Reports), including on Europe’s energy retail markets and consumer protection measures.
October: Energy retail and consumer protection.
Consumer Protection and Empowerment
The Consumer Protection and Empowerment volume looked at the performance of European energy markets from the final household consumer perspective. The volume explored the impact of the Third Energy Package provisions into national legislation. It analysed in depth public service obligations, the protection of vulnerable consumers, consumer information rights, smart meters and consumer complaints. The report also elaborated on the existence and effectiveness of consumer protection mechanisms and included a set of recommendations on how to further enhance consumer rights.
From 2019 edition this publication is titled Energy Retail and Consumer Protection Volume and integrate the previously separate Consumer Protection and Electricity and Gas Retail Markets Volumes.