What is the Commission doing to help overcome these challenges and appease the doubts of the critics?
The new Directive requires Member States to improve their energy infrastructure and the operation of it with the view to accommodate higher shares of renewable energy sources in the energy mix. Reinforcements, intelligent network solutions, new storage capacities, new interconnections, and revision of operational and market rules will all support this objective. It is true that certain sources are variable, but the difficulties can be overcome as we can see in the Danish and Spanish wind integration experience. In what ways is the Commission working to improve the regulatory framework with a view to ensuring that the EU can benefit from a liberalisation of the internal market in terms of secure, competitively priced and sustainable energy? The third liberalisation package adopted this summer is a big step in providing a proper regulatory framework for the EU electricity and gas markets. Firstly, the national regulatory authorities will become more independent from the Member States’ go
