The energy price hikes experienced in the European Union throughout 2022 prompted the Commission to propose a revision of the Electricity Market Design (EMD) to better integrate renewables, enhance the role of flexibility and empower consumers. The energy crisis would have been softened if key provisions supporting the uptake of demand-side flexibility from the 2019 EMD framework had been correctly implemented by Member States, which is not the case yet . Efforts to implement these existing provisions should be accelerated, not questioned.
The proposal from the Commission in March 2023 goes into the right direction by complementing and strengthening the fundamentals of the 2019 EMD with measures to further empower consumers and reward them for activating their flexibility, while ensuring a reliable and clean energy system.
This document aims to provide a comparative analysis on positions of all EU institutions (Commission, Council and European Parliament) in view of inspiring trilogue negotiations to reach a final deal.
