Tuesday 18 August 2009

New Flemish government and direct lines, closed distribution systems and private networks

Following the citiworks/Flughafen Halle-Leipzig judgement of the EC Court of Justice (Case C-439/06) and the compromise on the new directives for electricity and natural gas, allowing exemptions for closed distribution systems, the new Flemish Government in the coalition agreement agreed to "pay special attention" to these kinds of private initiatives.
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Monday 17 August 2009

Flemish energy regulator consults the market on proposal for new technical code

The VREG, the Flemish regulator for electricity and natural gas had opened a public consultation on draft amendments to the Flemish electricity and natural gas technical codes.

The proposal aims at:
- Leaving out all reference to direct lines and direct pipelines, and private networks (or closed distribution systems) as these are not yet legally regulated in the Flemish region;
- Submitting all contracts and regulations of the distribution system operators to the review of the VREG;
- Giving sufficient attention to decentralised production;
- Inserting a conciliation procedure.
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