Publications / Policy brief
Regional vision on "Challenges and opportunities for Ukraine gas market integration - How can the neighbours contribute"policy briefPublished: 25 of June, 2018

The Central and South East European Energy Policy Forum (CSEEPF), organized by the REKK Foundation, addresses a sensitive and timely energy policy topic every year. This year the topic was the future of the Ukrainian gas market and gas transit via ...

A villamosenergia-tárolás szabályozási kérdései Magyarországonpolicy briefPublished: 18 of June, 2018

Az elektromos energia tárolását lehetővé tevő megoldások a klímavédelmi erőfeszítések és a megújuló forrásból származó termelés integrálásának kihívásai miatt egyre fontosabb szerepet kaphatnak a jövő villamosenergia-rendszerében. Az időjárásfüggő ...

What to do about the Croatian LNG?policy briefPublished: 4 of May, 2018

Although the preparation work for the commissioning of the LNG terminal by the island of Krk has been ongoing for more than decade, during the course of which there have been several modifications, the prospect of the project’s realisation is ...

What caused the 2018 March price spike on TTF?New REKK Policy Brief has been published. - policy briefPublished: 24 of April, 2018

In late February, an extreme phenomenon occurred on TTF, the most liquid European natural gas exchange: daily settlement price was peaking over 70 €/MWh, with hourly results as high as 150 €/MWh. The hike was unprecedented: most extreme weather, the 2012 ...

Constant threat but limited actionsThe Effect of the US Sanctions on the Central and Eastern European Energy Sector - policy briefPublished: 19 of January, 2018

The US sanction bill enacted in 2017 targets Russian energy export projects, and creates significant risk for any person or company seeking to do business with designated Russian person or in Russian frontier energy projects. The new REKK Policy Brief ...

Twin peaks?The high summer HUPX prices and the potential price effects of higher PV penetration in Hungary - policy briefPublished: 23 of November, 2017

For the second time this year after January’s wholesale electricity prices rose to unexpected heights they did so again in late July/early August when hourly day ahead prices went up above 100 €/MWh many times in the most critical week, while German ...

How will LNG supply to Europe shape the European wholesale gas prices and flows by 2025?policy briefPublished: 16 of October, 2017

REKK has carried out a modelling based analysis to assess how different future scenarios of the global gas market supply and demand patterns can affect the wholesale gas price levels and infrastructure utilization in Europe by 2025. The analysis was part ...

Electricity Market integration 2.0 in Central and South-East Europepolicy briefPublished: 1 of October, 2017

The objective of this discussion paper is to briefly assess the most relevant legislative proposals pertaining to the European electricity market that emerged from the ‘Clean Energy for all Europeans’ package published at the end of 2016. Identifying the ...

REKK Comment on the new Hungarian renewable electricity support schemepolicy briefPublished: 14 of August, 2017

The European Commission has approved the new Hungarian renewable electricity support system (METÁR) in the middle of June, 2017. Accordingly, the Hungarian Ministry of National Development published the proposed new legislation for public ...

Analysing the 2017 January price hike in HUPXpolicy briefPublished: 20 of April, 2017

In 2017 January, extremly high prices were observed in the Hungarian power exchange. On 11 January, the baseload power price was traded on 300 €/MWh in some hours, while in the neighboring countries – except for Serbia and Croatia – prices were floating ...