CRNM employees took part in the ERRA regional meeting on regulatory issues

CRNM employees took part in the ERRA regional meeting on regulatory issues

Today, on September 21, 2021, the 2nd meeting of the regional Working Group of the Regional Association of Energy Regulatory Authorities (ERRA) on regulatory issues for the countries of Eurasia was held online.
In addition to the Committee on Regulation of Natural Monopolies, representatives of regulatory authorities of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Mongolia, Russia and Ukraine participated in the ERRA seminar on regulation in the Eurasian region.
Such meetings focus on regional regulatory priorities, current challenges and expected projects and facilitate the exchange of information and practices at the regional level.
The agenda of this meeting was formed taking into account the needs discussed by regulators during the first meeting on March 3 of this year, and includes such topical issues in the field of energy as:
- Methodology of tariff setting and review of the methodology of tariff formation;
- Regulation and methodology of tariffs for renewable energy sources;
- New technologies for digitizing the monitoring process.
Representatives of ERRA, the Regulator of the Electricity and Natural Gas Markets of Austria (E-Control), the National Commission for Energy and Water Supply Regulation of Georgia (GNERC) spoke in detail on these topics.
In the final part of the event, an active round-table discussion took place and the results of the current meeting were summed up.
As part of the discussion, we also considered new topics that will be discussed at similar meetings in the future.