Issue 01 · 28 August 2026

Issue 01 · Edition dated 28 August 2026

Welcome to Veridue’s weekly scan of European power-market regulation. We follow the changes shaping project economics, development timelines and investment decisions, for the teams developing, operating and financing renewables.

Read the takeaways for the week’s bigger themes, jump to the countries you follow, or spend a few minutes with our market deep dive. We cover the smaller changes too: the relevant update for your project may not be the biggest European headline.

This week’s takeaways

• Flexibility assessments need careful reading. Poland and Slovakia’s flexibility assessments show why a renewable-generation shortfall and a shortage of flexibility are different investment questions.

• Connections and reserve markets are being reshaped. Denmark is consulting on queue priorities, Croatia proposes flexible connections, and the Nordics will cap static FCR-D up provision from 30 September.

• Water joins the data-centre permitting debate. Questions in the Dutch parliament put cooling choices and drinking-water use under scrutiny. That is this week’s market deep dive.

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🇪🇺 EU & Nordics · 🇦🇹 Austria · 🇧🇪 Belgium · 🇭🇷 Croatia · 🇨🇿 Czechia · 🇩🇰 Denmark · 🇫🇮 Finland · 🇫🇷 France · 🇩🇪 Germany · 🇮🇹 Italy · 🇱🇻 Latvia · 🇱🇹 Lithuania · 🇳🇱 Netherlands · 🇳🇴 Norway · 🇵🇱 Poland · 🇵🇹 Portugal · 🇷🇴 Romania · 🇸🇰 Slovakia · 🇪🇸 Spain · 🇸🇪 Sweden · 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

Market deep dive · Deadline diary

Coverage and consultation status are as at 28 August 2026. This archived edition was republished with an updated layout on 28 September; some deadlines have since passed.

🇪🇺 EU & Nordic markets

Environmental Markets
Consultation · closes 21 October

Carbon-market review opens

The Commission is reviewing the EU ETS and its Market Stability Reserve, which governs how allowances enter or leave the market. European Commission

The outcome could move allowance supply and carbon-price exposure. There is no settled direction yet.

Market Design
Announced 26 August · applies from 30 September

Nordics cap static FCR-D up provision

The Nordic TSOs will initially cap static provision at 50% of total FCR-D up demand, securing a minimum share for dynamic response. Accepted static and dynamic bids receive the same marginal price. Fingrid expects the initial market impact in Finland to be very limited. Fingrid · Svenska kraftnät

Supportive of qualifying dynamic providers, including batteries. The benefit will differ between markets.

🇦🇹 Austria

Grid
Investment announced · 18 August

APG puts €240 million into its 220 kV network

APG plans to modernise the Ennstal transmission line as renewable generation grows. The upgrade is intended to increase network capacity. APG

More network capacity should help regional renewable integration, although the benefit arrives with the upgrade.

🇧🇪 Belgium

Market Design
Consultation · closes 30 August

Capacity-auction price caps under review

CREG is consulting on three proposals affecting price caps in Capacity Remuneration Mechanism auctions. For bidders, the caps set the upper limit on the capacity revenues they can seek. Proposal 1 · Proposal 2 · Proposal 3

Material to bid economics, but the effect depends on the relevant auction category and proposed cap.

Grid
Consultation · closes 31 August

Transmission-tariff methodology proposed

CREG proposes an amendment to the methodology used to calculate transmission tariffs. CREG

A cost-allocation question for network users; a uniform tariff increase or decrease cannot be inferred.

🇭🇷 Croatia

Grid
Bill filed with Parliament · 19 August

Flexible connections proposed for constrained networks

Electricity Market Act amendments would allow connections combining firm capacity with variable additional access. Curtailment under the flexible arrangement would be uncompensated. The bill also covers electricity sharing and consumer protection. Croatian Parliament

A route to connect where firm capacity is scarce, in exchange for accepting curtailment risk.

🇨🇿 Czechia

Market Design
Report · published earlier in August

Flexibility assessment adds to the regional picture

The Czech assessment examines renewable integration alongside the need for storage and dispatchable capacity. Secondary coverage of the assessment

A reference for comparing storage and dispatchable-capacity assumptions across Central Europe.

🇩🇰 Denmark

Grid
Consultation · closes 22 September

Connection priority could replace queue order

One of six draft executive orders would replace first-come-first-served allocation with four priority categories, including storage and data centres. Danish Energy Agency consultation

Qualifying projects could move ahead of older applications. Projects outside the priority categories face the opposite risk.

Market Design · Also in this issue: Nordic FCR-D procurement changes.

🇫🇮 Finland

Market Design
Announced 25 August · implementation in autumn

Reserve-provider and balance-responsibility terms change

Fingrid will update reserve-supplier and balance-responsible-party contracts, including security requirements and the treatment of production below 1 MW in balance settlement. Fingrid

Less direct administration for some small producers, but imbalance costs can still reappear in their offtake terms.

Market Design · Also in this issue: Nordic FCR-D procurement changes.

🇫🇷 France

Market Design
Decree signed · 13 August · catch-up

New facilities retain access to multi-year capacity contracts

The capacity-mechanism amendment preserves eligibility for relevant facilities unable to supply the grid before the auction date. Légifrance

Broadens access to multi-year capacity revenues for projects still approaching commissioning.

Taxes, Subsidies and Public Programmes
Funding call · first round closes 29 October

Funding for lower-impact data centres

The funding call supports equipment and technology that reduce data centres’ environmental impact, including cooling, heat recovery and circular-economy solutions. It is not general support for every data-centre development. Ministry of Ecological Transition

A funding opportunity for eligible equipment and technology projects.

🇩🇪 Germany

Grid
Consultation reminder · closes 18 September

AgNes keeps network-cost allocation in focus

BNetzA’s network-charging reform addresses how grid and congestion-management costs should be shared as the electricity system changes. The treatment of generation and storage is central to the debate. BNetzA

Costs may shift between network users, but the proposal does not support a blanket headwind rating for generation or storage. The treatment of each asset class matters.

🇮🇹 Italy

Market Design
Approved · 22 August

Renewable-auction rules and timetable approved

MASE approved the operating rules and technology-specific timetable for competitive renewable-energy tenders. Developers now have the submission process and auction windows against which to prepare bids. Gazzetta Ufficiale

Greater visibility on the route to market and the timing of support auctions.

Market Design
Approved · 24 August

2028 capacity-auction design approved

The decision sets the participation rules, capacity obligations and auction framework for the 2028 capacity market. Gazzetta Ufficiale

Gives prospective bidders a basis for qualification and delivery planning.

🇱🇻 Latvia

Market Design
Consultation · closes 28 August

Reporting rules for regulated companies

SPRK is consulting on amendments to energy-sector information-submission requirements. The deadline falls on this issue’s date. SPRK

An operational compliance item for regulated companies, rather than a change to project revenues.

🇱🇹 Lithuania

Taxes, Subsidies and Public Programmes
Draft order · 25 August

ETS indirect-cost aid proposed for industry

The proposal provides up to 80% reimbursement for the most exposed eligible industries and up to 75% for other listed sectors, including battery manufacturing. The 2026–2029 budget is €5.64 million, with an annual cap of €1.41 million. E-Seimas

Lower electricity-related costs for eligible industrial users, subject to the scheme’s limits.

Siting, Permitting and Land Use
Local procedure approved · 25 August

State-land lease relief in Pagėgiai

The district council approved a procedure providing relief for renewable projects leasing state land under the national Law on Land. E-Seimas

Lower land costs for qualifying projects in the district.

Grid
Regulatory update · 26 August

Network-cost accounting guidance amended

The regulator amended guidelines for the Long-Run Average Incremental Cost model used in network-cost and tariff calculations. E-Seimas

Changes how network costs are calculated, rather than setting a new tariff in this announcement.

🇳🇱 Netherlands

Siting, Permitting and Land Use
Parliamentary questions

Data-centre water use under scrutiny

MPs are questioning drinking-water use and cooling choices at an Amsterdam data centre. Read this week’s market deep dive for the permitting implications and the earlier moratorium context.

Market Design
Consultation · closes 6 October

BRP collateral methodology under consultation

ACM proposes changes to the collateral calculation for balance-responsible parties providing security to TenneT. Official consultation

Higher requirements would tie up working capital. The direction for each BRP depends on the revised calculation.

🇳🇴 Norway

Market Design
Nordic procurement update · 26 August

Dynamic reserve provision gains protection

Norway participates in the Nordic FCR-D up procurement changes. The cap on static provision secures a minimum share for dynamic response.

Supportive of qualifying dynamic reserve providers, including batteries.

🇵🇱 Poland

Market Design
PSE report · 29 July · catch-up

Flexibility needs depend on renewable buildout

PSE’s assessment examines 2030 and 2035 against renewable-output targets of 97 TWh and 119 TWh. A shortfall caused by insufficient generation capacity needs more generation; curtailment of available output is a different problem, which storage can help address. The 2035 analysis points to around 16 GWh of storage on average across the relevant scenarios. PSE assessment

A useful development signal, but the scenario result is not a storage procurement target.

Market Design
Consultation · closes 4 September

Central data-exchange rules proposed

PSE’s proposed Transmission Grid Code amendments concern the central energy-market information system and how metering and settlement data are exchanged. PSE

Generators and BRPs may need to adapt data processes and interfaces.

🇵🇹 Portugal

Siting, Permitting and Land Use
Resolution published · 25 August

Designated areas offer a faster permitting route

The government approved more than 800 geographic areas under the Renewable Energy Directive’s accelerated-development framework. Projects in scope can benefit from streamlined permitting and the applicable environmental-assessment arrangements. Diário da República

A potentially shorter route to consent in designated areas. Environmental conditions still apply.

🇷🇴 Romania

Market Design
Consultation · closes 23 September

Licensing guarantees proposed, with targeted exclusions

ANRE’s draft sets out how financial guarantees under its licensing rules would be constituted, called and released. It includes proposed exclusions for CfD projects and co-located storage. ANRE

The exclusions could reduce capital tied up in guarantees for qualifying projects.

🇸🇰 Slovakia

Market Design
SEPS report · 18 August · catch-up

Flexibility assessment separates different system needs

SEPS finds no uncovered renewable-integration flexibility need in 2030 or 2035 that would cause the national renewable target to be missed. The assessment separately covers residual-load changes, forecast errors and local network constraints. SEPS assessment

The result does not rule out storage demand for balancing or local grid services. Those markets need their own analysis.

Grid
Consultation · response deadline not confirmed

Next regulatory period takes shape

URSO is seeking views on the price-regulation framework for 2028–2032, including the approach to regulated cost recovery and returns. URSO

Regulated returns and allowed costs for the next five-year period are at stake.

🇪🇸 Spain

Market Design
Consultation reminder · closes 3 September

Supply and aggregation rules

The proposal sets out how independent aggregation would work in practice, including demand-response baselines and compensation to affected retailers at the day-ahead price. MITECO

A clearer operating framework for independent aggregators. Settlement and compensation costs will still determine whether individual services are profitable.

Market Design
Consultation reminder · closes 4 September

Non-peninsular generation and dispatch

The draft brings standalone and hybrid storage into dispatch in Spain’s non-peninsular systems. It also changes renewable remuneration to reduce exposure to zero or negative mainland prices. MITECO

Better access for storage and a more suitable price signal for renewables in these systems, if the proposals are adopted.

Environmental Markets
Consultation reminder · closes 15 September

Renewable-fuels certification and electricity credits

A proposed Order would establish a Renewable Fuels Certification System and a renewable-electricity credit mechanism. MITECO

An additional source of value for eligible renewable output if the proposed credit mechanism is implemented.

🇸🇪 Sweden

Siting, Permitting and Land Use
Land-access update · 25 August

Compensation supports early grid-land agreements

For the Ekhyddan–Nybro line, Svenska kraftnät has offered an additional payment to eligible landowners if the anticipated compensation legislation takes effect by 1 July 2028. Eligibility depends on the agreement and land-access conditions. Svenska kraftnät

Could reduce the incentive to delay land agreements on this project. It is a conditional, project-specific arrangement, not a nationwide compensation increase.

Market Design · Also in this issue: Nordic FCR-D procurement changes.

🇬🇧 United Kingdom

Grid
Consultation · closes 1 September

Northern Ireland sets out a licensing route for synchronous condensers

The Utility Regulator proposes a generation-licence form for synchronous condensers. These assets provide inertia and short-circuit strength, helping the system accommodate renewable generation. Utility Regulator

A clearer regulatory route for investment in system-strength services.

Siting, Permitting and Land Use
Consultation reminder · closes 4 September

Planning relief for network ground investigations

DESNZ proposes a permitted development right for certain transmission and distribution ground investigations, removing the need for a separate planning application for those activities. DESNZ

Could shorten early survey and investigation work on network projects.

Siting, Permitting and Land Use
Consultation · closes 21 September

Northern Ireland offshore-wind compensation framework

DAERA proposes arrangements for environmental compensation where offshore-wind projects affect protected marine sites. DAERA

Additional compensation requirements could add development cost and consenting work.

Taxes, Subsidies and Public Programmes
Consultation reminder · closes 21 September

Land Remediation Relief reform

The government is considering changes to make relief more accessible and targeted towards brownfield development. Government consultation

Could improve the economics of qualifying contaminated-land redevelopment.

Taxes, Subsidies and Public Programmes
Consultation reminder · closes 9 September

CfD supplier-obligation changes for industrial relief

The government proposes using Exchequer funding through the CfD supplier obligation to finance the British Industrial Competitiveness Scheme without shifting the relief’s cost onto households and other non-exempt consumers. DESNZ

Electricity-cost relief for eligible industrial consumers. This is not an increase in support payable to CfD generators.

Grid
Consultation · closes 25 September

NESO’s annual financial model consultation

NESO is consulting on its regulatory financial model as required by Ofgem. NESO

A regulatory-finance update, rather than a standalone change to every generator’s connection charges.

Market Design
Ofgem announcement · 26 August

Household price cap rises for the fourth quarter

The typical household dual-fuel price-cap bill will rise by 4% for October–December 2026. Individual outcomes vary with consumption and fuel mix; this is not a 4% increase in every electricity bill. Ofgem

Retail context for this audience. The household cap is not a corporate PPA price benchmark.

Consultation & funding diary

Deadlines recorded for this edition, not a live list of what remains open today. Use each market’s source link for the consultation documents.

• 28–31 August: 🇱🇻 Latvia reporting (28th); 🇧🇪 Belgian capacity-auction caps (30th) and transmission tariffs (31st).

• 1–4 September: 🇬🇧 Northern Ireland synchronous condensers (1st); 🇪🇸 Spanish supply and aggregation (3rd), non-peninsular dispatch (4th); 🇵🇱 Polish data exchange (4th); 🇬🇧 UK ground investigations (4th).

• 9–18 September: 🇬🇧 CfD / BICS funding (9th); 🇪🇸 renewable certificates (15th); 🇩🇪 AgNes network charges (18th).

• 21–25 September: 🇬🇧 Northern Ireland offshore-wind compensation and UK Land Remediation Relief (21st); 🇩🇰 Danish queue priorities (22nd); 🇷🇴 Romanian guarantees (23rd); 🇬🇧 NESO financial model (25th).

• October: 🇳🇱 BRP collateral (6th); 🇪🇺 ETS / MSR review (21st); 🇫🇷 data-centre funding applications (29th, a funding call rather than a consultation).

🇸🇰 Slovakia: the response deadline for URSO’s 2028–2032 framework was not confirmed in the source reviewed.

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