From “Key Messages on: “Energy 2020 ‐ A strategy for competitive, sustainable and secure energy” COM (2010)639 Final”, published by Eurelectric, January 2011:
“Priority should be given to implementing and enforcing existing internal electricity and gas market legislation without delay to ensure proper functioning of electricity markets.”
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“Integration of electricity markets should be placed at the heart of national and EU policies and seen as a major tool of efficient introduction of renewables into the market.”
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“We need a European vision of the development of renewables, including provision for flexible back-up generation.”
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“In terms of the EU speaking with one voice in external energy relations, the Commission should be encouraged to implement a real integration of the EU energy markets. By uniting Member States by common interest, market integration will greatly strengthen the position of the external European energy policy.”
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Reported in the Financial Times, 27 January 2011 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/aae679a2-29a1-11e0-bb9b-00144feab49a.html#axzz1CFP1xp00