A European Commission draft for electricity market revisions, whose text has been obtained by energypress, includes a plan for an EU platform to host green-energy PPAs.

Preliminary discussions on electricity market revisions are currently taking place in Brussels and expected to continue at a session tomorrow ahead of a second round of talks planned for mid-December.

It should be noted that tripartite meetings, or trilogues, between European Parliament, the Council and the Commission, will need to be completed by early February if the draft is to be adopted and published in the EU’s Official Journal ahead of the forthcoming European elections.

The European Commission, according to the draft plan, will consider establishing a European platform for PPAs by assessing the interaction prospects of such a platform with other existing electricity market platforms and a potential market pooling role.

The platform, according to the plan, will operate on a purely voluntary basis for participants and will be developed through cooperation between the European Commission, ACER, Europe’s Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators, and EU member states.

The draft agreement calls on EU member states to promote the adoption of PPAs by removing any unnecessary barriers, unjustified procedures or fees that may exist in order to ensure price visibility and achieve objectives included in their respective National Energy and Climate Plans.

The European Commission may issue a specific directive to remove barriers hindering PPAs, the plan notes. It recommends an assessment by January, 2026, followed by inspections every two years, to determine whether barriers remain and whether transparency in PPA markets is sufficient.