Last week the European Union (EU) Parliament passed legislation which includes measures to enable the deployment of smart meters for 80% of the EU population.
The main objective of the legislation is to create a single, competitive, open EU market for gas and electricity. This includes creating an EU Agency for the cooperation of National Energy Regulators, which sounds similar to National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) in the US, promoting an even playing field by separating generation, transmission, and distribution, and promoting sustainability by enabling small companies to have guaranteed access to the energy market.
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