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The liberalisation of Europe's electricity markets (2000)

Author	Antony Froggatt, Greenpeace Int.
Date	May 2000
Classification	6.01.0.10/57 (COSTS)
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:

The key finding of this report is that the process of liberalizing the EU electricity 
market is introducing certain trends that are detrimental to the environmental 
objectives of the European Union. In particular, the expansion of renewable energy 
and the reduction of CO2 emissions are being hampered by the liberalisation 
process as it is currently being allowed to develop.

In terms of volume of transactions, Europe has become a focus for the process of 
electricity liberalisation globally. Therefore Europe must also become the proving 
ground for integrating environmental considerations into this new model of 
electricity markets.

The emergence of consumer choice that allows for Green Power schemes is so far 
appears to have been small compensation for some of the more worrying trends 
for human health, the environment and the wider economy that the process of 
liberalisation has set in motion. The problems arise from the inadequacy of current 
regulations in safeguarding clean production methods, efficient energy use and 
energy security. Strengthened regulation is needed to balance the adverse effects 
of the purely commercial, competition-based rules that are currently in place.

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