Electricity

•  Regulated third party access
• 87 generators, license holders, one TSO, Market operator, 8 DOSs, 138 suppliers
• Market opening – 100%
• Wholesale market model

The main components of the wholesale electricity market are a bilateral contracts market, a voluntary power exchange (day-ahead market- DAM) and a balancing market. At the end of the 2010 around 16.7% of the final consumption was traded on the DAM. A green-certificates market is administrated by the Market Operator starting with November 2005.

The wholesale electricity market includes regulated contracts and bilateral negotiated contracts between generators and suppliers, regulated contracts for covering the network losses, bilateral negotiated contracts generator-generator and supplier-supplier, as well as contracts concluded on centralized markets: CMBC (centralized market of bilateral contracts), CMBC-CN (centralized market of partially stardardised bilateral contracts, with continuous negotiation) and on the Power floor of RCE (Romanian Commodities Exchange), transactions on DAM (day-ahead market) and on BM (Balancing Market).

• ANRE still regulates end-user prices for the consumers who did not choose to change supplier.

• Regulated third party access
• Market structure: 7 production companies, 1 transmission company (state owned), 3 underground storage operators, 72 distribution and supply companies, 2.7 ml consumers
• 100% market opening in 2007
• ANRE still regulates end-user prices for the consumers who did not choose to change supplier.

• Energy prices and social protection