Consultation of ACM’s regulatory method: broad support for more investments in the energy transition
Businesses, municipalities, interest groups, experts, and system operators all underlined the importance of the energy transition, and agree that, over the next years, system operators must have more financial leeway to make all necessary investments. However, many market participants do have concerns about the affordability for households and businesses. This has been revealed by the responses that the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) has received in a consultation about ACM’s future regulatory method for system operators.
ACM had invited all parties involved to respond to a consultation document about the methodology with which ACM determines the tariffs for system operators. This methodology is revised every three to five years. The new methodology is set to enter into force on January 1, 2027.
ACM has received responses from the trade association of system operators Netbeheer Nederland (NBNL), transmission system operators TenneT and GTS, the Dutch association for sustainable energy NVDE, the Dutch homeowners association Vereniging Eigen Huis (VEH), Gas Storage Nederland, the Dutch association for business energy users and business water users VEMW, the trade association of the Dutch energy industry Energie Nederland, environmental organization Natuur & Milieu, trade association of natural-gas companies Element NL, charging network operator Allego, chemicals producer Nobian, energy suppliers Essent and Vattenval, and from the municipalities of Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Utrecht and The Hague. In addition, two experts (independent energy advisor Bernard Ter Haar and professor of Energy Economics at the University of Groningen Machiel Mulder) shared their perspectives at the request of ACM. ACM has published all responses to the consultation below, and will draw up the broad strokes of a draft method based on these responses. ACM expects to publish these in the first quarter of 2024. In 2025, ACM will set the draft method decisions, followed by the definitive method decisions in 2026.
More information
13-12-2023 Responses of interested parties to the consultation document regarding the regulatory method (in Dutch)
See also
2-10-2023 ACM invites all interested parties to share their opinions about the new tariff methodology
21-7-2023 ACM starts pre-parations for the new regulatory period for system operators