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The Energy Community is an international organization bringing together the EU and its neighbours in Armenia, Norway and Turkey participate as Observers.
The Energy Community is an international organisation which brings together the European Union and its neighbours to create an integrated pan-European energy market. The organisation was founded by the Treaty establishing the Energy Community signed in October 2005 in Athens, Greece, in force since July 2006. The key objective of the Energy Community is to extend the EU internal energy market rule
04/06/2026
And that's a wrap! Athens Electricity Forum strengthens Energy Community cooperation to accelerate electricity market integration, increasing energy security 👇
⚡ On 3–4 June, the Energy Community’s Athens Electricity Forum gathered the stakeholders needed to make EU–Energy Community electricity market integration a reality — from policymakers and regulators to system operators, market actors and European institutions.
🏃➡️ The integration of the EU’s South East and Eastern European neighbours into the EU single electricity market has gained urgency amid ongoing geopolitical uncertainty. With CBAM alignment and the right flexibility planning, the region can turn electricity market integration into a driver of renewable investment and long-term fossil fuel independence, Energy Community Secretariat Director Artur Lorkowski underscored.
This is especially true if the region simultaneously advances in the electrification of fossil-fuel intensive sectors such as heating and transport.
“Electricity market integration is among the region’s most important pre-accession energy priorities,” Energy Community Secretariat Director Artur Lorkowski said. “It is how we build larger, shock-resistant markets, unlocking the homegrown energy needed for long-term security.”
For the full press release, and the conclusions, see: https://bit.ly/4uzvIWl
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As we advance EU-Energy Community electricity market integration, regulators have an enormous role to play 👇
Listen to Tamar Paranushvili of სემეკი / საქართველოს ენერგეტიკისა და წყალმომარაგების მარეგულირებელი კომისია / GNERC, Georgia.
Got opinions? Drop them in our comments.
We're finishing up our live coverage of the Athens Electricity Forum, but stick around a bit for the grand finale.
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Mia Vujovic of Montenegro's Ministry of Energy and Mining came to this year's Athens Electricity Forum with good news. ⚡
Montenegro has notified the transposition of the Electricity Integration Package -- a set of 9 legal acts that once fully and compliantly transposed, opens the door to start the electricity market integration process with the EU's internal electricity market.
Montenegro is now in the verification process, whereby both the Energy Community Secretariat and the European Commission verify whether the Contracting Party has fully and compliantly transposed the The Secretariat issued its assessment to the European Commission on the 15th of May this year, and the Commission now has 5 months to issue it's opinion.
You can follow where all Contracting Parties are in the verification process here: https://bit.ly/4em94eR
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Milos Mladenovic, CEO of SEEPEX A.D. came to the Energy Community's Athens Electricity Forum with a very specific purpose. 👇
🗣️After 20 years of attending the forum, these are his expectations for this year's event.
👉What are you hoping comes out of the forum this year? Drop a comment and join the conversation below.
& Keep following us today, as we share final updates from Athens.
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Looking for takeaways from our intense discussion at the Athens Electricity Forum on CBAM and its effect on electricity trade between the EU and the Energy Community?
Edin Zametica, from Bosnia and Herzegovina's State Electricity Regulatory Commission, has this to say 👇
Join the debate by commenting on this post, and follow us here today for more coverage from the Athens Electricity Forum.
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🗣️ This is what will unlock a greener electricity system in South East and Eastern Europe, says Rigela Gegprifti from Statkraft 👇
Watch as Gegprifti shares why she came to the Energy Community's Athens Electricity Forum — and the message she brought to stakeholders from across the region yesterday.
Continue the conversation at the forum virtually, by commenting and sharing this post!
Stay tuned today, as we bring you more live coverage.
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03/06/2026
👉 Now, at the Athens Electricity Forum, we're examining how regulatory frameworks in South East and Eastern Europe can deliver the level of flexibility needed for the large-scale integration of renewables.
Key insights:
⚡ Clear market rules, equal access conditions and strong governance are key to attracting investment, advancing EU electricity market integration and deploying new non-fossil flexibility resources – like demand response and storage.
⚡Both the Electricity Integration Package — the basis for market coupling with the EU — and TEN-E rules— which support strategic cross-border infrastructure and flexibility investments — are key to creating these conditions.
⚡ Consumers are key players in the energy transition. Stronger regulatory frameworks are needed to incentivize them to participate more actively in electricity markets.
⚡Energy Community Contracting Parties should start assessing their future flexibility needs now — even before this becomes a formal obligation — using the common EU methodology.
Stay tuned for more insights from the forum!
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03/06/2026
🔊 Happening Now! At the Energy Community Athens Electricity Forum, we're exploring how South East and Eastern Europe can move faster toward full electricity market integration with the EU — and build greater resilience out of crisis.
Key insights:
👉 Faster integration with the EU electricity market is a shared priority for the Energy Community – the current crisis has made this more urgent.
👉The legal basis for integration is the compliant transposition of the Electricity Integration Package. A positive opinion by the European Commission under the compliance verification process will open the 18-month road to Contracting Parties’ adherence to single day-ahead and single intraday coupling
👉A key element of integration is that EU and Energy Community regulatory decisions — adopted by ACER and ECRB respectively — must be directly applicable and enforceable in each Contracting Party.
👉To shield citizens and businesses from external price shocks, the accelerated deployment of homegrown renewable energy should be combined with the electrification, in particular across fossil-fuel intensive sectors such as heating and transport.
Stay tuned for more insights from the forum!
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22/05/2026
During a recent visit to Ukraine, Energy Community Secretariat Director Artur Lorkowski met with key government stakeholders to strengthen cooperation on supporting Ukraine’s energy system, while preparing it for deeper EU-energy integration. 👇
The two parallel tracks, Lorkowski underscored, are crucial for Ukraine’s long-term energy resilience.
🗣️ “The protection and resilience of Ukraine’s energy system both on emergency response and on building integrated gas and electricity markets that can attract investment, enable cross-border trade and support a decarbonised energy future,” Lorkowski said.
Read more here: https://bit.ly/49iNgOt
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🤝 The total contribution of Italy to the Ukraine Energy Support Fund has reached almost EUR 23 million with new EUR 10 million contribution signed in Kyiv today.
Thank you to Italy (Ambasciata d'Italia in Ucraina - Посольство Італії в Україні ) for remaining steadfast in its commitment to protecting Ukraine’s energy sector — its workers, and the communities who depend on them — through the Ukraine Energy Support Fund, administered by the Energy Community Secretariat.
📣 Italy’s EUR 10 million contribution, signed today in Kyiv, will support the procurement of critically needed equipment for Ukraine’s energy sector, with a focus on supplies linked to Italian industrial capacity.
These funds will enter a trusted, tested mechanism that is constantly evolving to adapt to needs on the ground. Together with the Ministry of Energy of Ukraine, the Secretariat is working to ensure preparedness for another winter at war.
This includes the creation of a strategic reserve of critical energy equipment for the next heating season, enabling faster dispatch when urgent needs arise.
None of this would be possible without partners like Italy. As one of the Fund’s top 10 donors, Italy has contributed in ensuring that key support has already reached almost 70 energy companies across 23 regions of Ukraine, helping keep heat and light on during years of Russia's war of aggression.
Italy’s contribution sends an important signal of continued solidarity.
As needs on the ground evolve rapidly, more than EUR 773 million is urgently needed to sustain Ukraine's energy resilience — a humanitarian imperative and increasingly relevant for Europe’s own energy security.
💚 To Ministry of Energy of Ukraine for the video.
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