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The weather has been lenient over the period analysed. Summer 2006 was rainy (with the exception of Eastern Europe, especially Poland). Winter 2006-2007 was mild. Thus weather conditions allowed a fairly good level of security of supply. The worst “real margin” recorded on the UCTE system came at 7.6% in January 2006 and stayed above 9% during almost the rest of 2006;
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A: Remaining capacity at peak load is based on: (i) for the UCTE countries, on the “Remaining Capacity without exchanges minus Margin Against Monthly Peak Load as a percentage of the net generating capacity” data of the UCTE system adequacy retrospect 2006 (ii) for the Nordic countries, on the “Comparison of capacity and maximum system load” published by Nordel (iii) for the UK and Ireland, on the ratio of National Surplus divided by the total generation at peak load.
B: Country figures are based on the 2006 monthly minimums of the margins, illustrating nearly the worst situations of capacity, country by country. At a European level, the local situations might not happen during the same months.
C: Countries without arrows were not in the graph in the previous edition, and hence are not available for comparison with 2006 data.
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Norway, a non-EU State, was arguably fully deregulated one year earlier.
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In December 2006, the EU Commission delivered a reasoned opinion to the French government claiming that the country’s regulated tariffs infringed upon EU objectives to open up energy markets. In addition, the Commission opened a State Aid procedure concerning regulated tariffs in June this year. This aims to determine whether large and medium-sized businesses benefit from assistance from regulated rates set at artificially low levels. This procedure is financed directly by State resources.
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Even in open markets, eligible customers in many states receive regulated tariffs or prices, unless they opt for competitive tariffs.
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This project comparatively monitors switching trends around the world. Data is derived from over 50 expert sources. For more information visit: www.firstdatautilities.com/customer-switching. Switching percentages aggregate residential and I&C switching, yet primarily reflect residential activity. A ‘switch’ is essentially seen as the free (by choice) movement of a customer from one supplier to another. Switching activity is defined as the number of switches in a given period of time and includes re-switching (when a customer switches for the second or subsequent time, even within the same measured period of time), switch-back (when a customer switches back to his/her former or previous supplier). A change of tariff with the same retailer is not equivalent to a switch.
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Lewiner, C. (2010). Competitive Power. In: Lewiner, C. (eds) European Energy Markets Observatory. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0091-8_3
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