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Spain: First Med Energy Regulation Forum in Barcelona on 26/11

2014/11/09

Challenges in the Mediterranean energy sector and the need to create a regional energy community will be the focus on the initial Mediterranean Forum on Energy Regulation on November 26 in Barcelona.

The organizer, MEDREG, is the only association representing independent public authorities in the electricity and gas sector in the Mediterranean. The forum aims to set up a shared regulatory body for electricity and gas for the 21 nations represented and will be an opportunity to tackle decisive issues for the energy policies in the sector- such as what the regulatory authority's role should be in the inter-dependent and interconnected regional market. An extra issue to be dealt with is what investment and financial mechanisms can be used to create infrastructure to meet the growing

request for gas, electricity and renewable energy in the area, aiming to draw up a 'road map' to create an energy community in the Mediterranean.

Dedicated to 'Regulation & Investments: Solutions for the Mediterranean Region', the debate - sources from the organization told ANSAmed - is an opportunity to review the current national of thinking on the relationship between energy regulation and investments and to identify the major changes and risks so that they can be dealt with both at the regional and sub-regional levels.

The forum is meant as a luck to draw up concrete proposals for better energy regulation and to promote investment in infrastructure and interconnectedness. High-level figures have been invited to attend, and the forum will be chaired by MEDREG president Michel Thiolliére. the scientific committee is led by Maria Teresa Costa-Campi, Professor of Energy Sustainability at the University of Barcelona. MEDREG unites energy regulators of 21 Mediterranean nations to foster a clear, stable and harmonized legislative and regulatory framework through cooperation between the northern, southern and eastern areas of the Mediterranean. The secretariat is in Milan, at the Italian Regulatory Authority for Electricity, Gas and Water (AEEGSI).

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