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Elettricità Futura

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Elettricità Futura is the leading Association of companies operating in the Italian electricity sector.

Lobbying Activity

Meeting with Giorgio Gori (Member of the European Parliament)

3 Dec 2025 · Uptake of PPAs and CFDs, IAA, energy prices, ETS2

Meeting with Alexandre Paquot (Director Climate Action)

3 Dec 2025 · Innovation Fund, Heat auction

Response to EU’s next long-term budget (MFF) – implementing EU funding with Member States and regions

29 Oct 2025

Elettricità Futura, the leading Association of the Italian electric power industrial supply chain, welcomes the European Commissions proposals for the next Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) 20282034. This feedback addresses COM(2025) 547 Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) and COM(2025) 565 National and Regional Partnership Plans (NRPPs). The new MFF will be crucial to financing Europes competitiveness, energy transition, and strategic autonomy. Electrification is the backbone of this transformation, driving renewable integration, system efficiency, and the decarbonisation of end-use sectors. Elettricità Futura supports the Commissions ambition to simplify and align EU funding instruments. Under the NRPPs, we welcome the establishment of a single plan per Member State to unify cohesion policy funds, provided that regions retain a key role and electricity distribution grids receive dedicated and stable support to enhance hosting capacity, resilience, and digitalisation. We support the shift towards a money-for-reform mechanism, provided it includes clear KPIs, transparent monitoring, and harmonised governance. Regulatory predictability and streamlined permitting remain essential to accelerate investments in regulated infrastructure. Regarding the Connecting Europe Facility, Elettricità Futura calls for the continued eligibility of smart grids and interconnectors, faster approval procedures, and a single-stage evaluation process to speed up project delivery and maximise the European added value. By prioritising electrification, grid modernisation, and clean innovation, the MFF 20282034 can provide the stable, future-proof financial framework needed to build a resilient, interconnected, and climate-neutral European energy system. Please find attached the full feedback.
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Response to Revision of the EU’s energy security framework

13 Oct 2025

Elettricità Futura, Italy's leading electricity association representing over 70% of the national electricity market, welcomes the European Commission's initiative to review the EU regulatory framework on energy security. Europe's energy security must evolve beyond emergency management to encompass resilience, flexibility, and strategic autonomy in an increasingly electrified, renewable-based, and digitalised system. Recent geopolitical shocks, fossil fuel price volatility, and climate-related disruptions have highlighted the vulnerability of the traditional energy model and the need for a systemic, forward-looking approach. A secure and decarbonised power system driven by electrification and renewables is the most efficient and reliable pathway to strengthen Europe's resilience, competitiveness, and independence. Energy security must rest on integrated planning, efficient investment, and robust governance. Current planning processes often remain reactive and fragmented, insufficiently integrating flexibility needs, long-term risk assessments, and cross-sector interactions. Adequacy assessments must evolve to bridge the gap between theoretical modelling and operational realities, ensuring that the European Resource Adequacy Assessment (ERAA) and National Resource Adequacy Assessments (NRAAs) are fully aligned. Harmonised methodologies, data, and timelines are essential to generate coherent investment signals and underpin effective Capacity Remuneration Mechanisms (CRMs), which remain crucial to guarantee adequacy and enable higher renewable penetration. Modern, digital, and interconnected grids are the foundation of a secure and decarbonised energy system. The EU must accelerate anticipatory and coordinated grid investments to integrate variable renewables, electrify consumption, and enhance cross-border capacity, and complemented by large-scale and behind-the-meter storage solutions to relieve congestion and enhance system efficiency. Demand-side flexibility is an essential component of energy security. Demand response and storage can provide rapid and cost-effective system support, yet their deployment remains limited by regulatory barriers and market fragmentation. Revising the Risk Preparedness Regulation (EU 2019/941) to explicitly recognise these resources, alongside an EU "flexibility and storage roadmap" integrated into NECPs and monitored by ACER, would ensure coherent progress. Governance structures must evolve in line with the growing complexity of the energy system. Clear responsibilities, transparent communication, and eeffective coordination among system operators, regulators, and governments are essential for crisis management and long-term stability. Strengthening cross-border coordination of real-time markets will be critical to manage variability, improve efficiency, and ensure an integrated European response to stress events. As the power system becomes more digital, cybersecurity must be treated as a core element of energy security. Europe should adopt common standards and establish a European Cybersecurity Centre to coordinate policies, fund infrastructure protection, and conduct EU-wide cyber-resilience exercises. Distributed energy technologies should be included under EU cybersecurity law, and AI applications must be safeguarded to prevent malicious use against critical infrastructure. Securing strategic autonomy requires strengthening Europe's industrial and technological base. Reducing reliance on imported technologies requires stronger domestic clean-tech manufacturing that must be supported by stable regulation, simplified permitting, and innovative financing such as PPAs, CfDs, a European Electricity Bank, and strategic use of ETS revenues. Public ocurement should promote "made-in-EU" technologies through award, not pre-qualification, criteria. Please find attached Elettricità Futura's contribution.
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Response to Revision of the REMIT Implementing Regulation on data reporting

16 Sept 2025

EF/Proxigas welcome the opportunity to provide feedback on the Draft Implementing Regulation revising REMIT data reporting rules. Our key recommendations are as follows: Simplification: Administrative burdens on MPs should be further reduced, in line with EU competitiveness objectives. Exposure Reporting: Requirements are disproportionate. We recommend raising the threshold to 5 TWh/year (or applying the 600 GWh/year threshold on a net basis), shortening the horizon to 18 months, limiting reporting to one quarterly submission per MP, and ensuring at least 12 months for implementation after ACER publishes technical specifications. Algorithmic Trading: Replace the complex Algorithm ID field with a simple Algo flag, with detailed information required only upon request. Technical Specifications: Binding deadlines for ACER guidance are essential, with sufficient lead time for market participants to adapt. Clarity & Consistency: Address overlaps and ambiguities, harmonize definitions (e.g. balancing services), and simplify reporting tables by removing redundant fields. A more detailed feedback is available in the attached document jointly elaborated by EF and Proxigas.
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Response to Commission Regulation on inside information platforms and registered reporting mechanisms under REMIT

16 Sept 2025

A more detailed feedback is available in the attached document jointly elaborated by EF and Proxigas EF/Proxigas welcome the opportunity to provide feedback on the Draft Commission Delegated Regulation supplementing Regulation (EU) No 1227/2011 (REMIT). Our key observations and recommendations are as follows: Scope of application: Articles 4(2) and 16 should apply exclusively to commercial IIPs/RRMs, as conflicts of interest and risks of discrimination are not relevant to entities operating solely within their corporate group. Timelines and implementation: We strongly support the official deadline for ACER to publish documentation (Article 9) and recommend similar deadlines for commercial IIPs/RRMs to communicate updated technical specifications to clients. For the new UMM reporting requirements (Table 6), a minimum of 12 months from entry into force is essential to ensure proper adaptation, testing, and operationalization by all stakeholders. Exposure reporting: Activities should be explicitly included in the definition of data record (Article 2(5)). Communication with clients: Article 18(1) should ensure direct communication with IIP clients, in addition to website publication. Back-up Platform: The mandatory obligation for MPs to publish on their own website during IIP downtime should be reconsidered. MPs must be free to choose the appropriate channel. Allowing parallel continuous publication (IIP + company website) would help prevent fragmentation of information. Annex II Other market information: If it is not foreseen a specific reporting Table, Table 6 should be structured to permit publication of other market information (e.g. intermediate steps, commercial details) without the full set of mandatory details required for gas or power UMMs. Please find feedback attached.
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Response to European grid package

5 Aug 2025

Elettricità Futura welcomes the opportunity to provide feedback on the European Grids Package. Please find attached our key recommendations.
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Response to Requirements for access to data required for switching electricity supplier

17 Jun 2025

Elettricità Futura welcomes the proposal of an Implementing Regulation (IR) on access to data for switching electricity suppliers to harmonize procedures and facilitate full interoperability of energy services within the EU. The Draft Implementing Regulation of Directive 2019/944 is a significant step towards a more integrated, competitive, and consumer-focused EU electricity market. The requirement to implement 24-hour supplier switching by the end of 2026 will benefit consumers and increase competition. However, to make such rapid switching effective, significant operational adjustments across all involved actors are necessary. Regarding the due date that should be taken in consideration, wed like to represent that although the draft IR states that the technical procedure for the 24-hour switching should be implemented by Member States by the end of 2026, the Italian version of the Directive 944/2019 contains the date of the 1st of January 2026. This discrepancy represents an unjustified administrative burden for Italy as it is one of the few member states. It is therefore necessary to adapt some aspects of the Draft Regulation to allow a more flexible implementation: A) Identification of customers through two steps authentication factor. We support the use of secure technological solutions to protect customer data during switching. However, mandatory two-step authentication must not become a barrier for digitally vulnerable consumers. Many may lack access to or familiarity with such tools. Therefore, we believe this requirement must not be obligatory but a recommendation, and allow flexibility based on customer characteristics. Alternative identification methodssuch as electronic signaturesshould be equally considered. Moreover, the double-check step should only confirm the customer's intention to enter the contract, without imposing full identity verification via digital IDs (e.g., SPID or equivalents), which may exclude certain users. B) Upfront validation of the accounting point characteristics and contractual constraints. Efficient switching requires certain technical operations (e.g., validation of metering point characteristics or contract constraints) to be performed in advance. In centralized platforms like Italys, many of these activities currently occur post-contract, which is incompatible with a 24-hour timeline. We recommend confirm that all the activities of the different parties, necessary to the carry out of the switching, could be made before the signing of the contract if the customers have given their permission to use his data and to allow Member States to enable data exchange (e.g., notification to the old supplier, access to historical consumption) before the switching request is finalized, provided customer consent is obtained, and GDPR rules are respected. This would help prevent errors and enable smoother implementation. However, it must be recognized that some customer data cannot be preemptively gathered. C) Switching Cancellation and Withdrawal Period. Under the Draft Regulation, customers can cancel the switching request during the withdrawal period, even after switching occurs. While consumer protection is essential, this mechanism could allow misusee.g., by repeatedly switching to avoid paying outstanding bills (energy tourism). To preserve market integrity while respecting consumer rights, we suggest: - Limiting the number of switches per customer in a defined period (e.g., per month or year), and - Allowing suppliers to restrict 24-hour switching for customers with unpaid debts, subject to safeguards. These targeted measures would help prevent abuse without harming legitimate consumer mobility or delaying switching for compliant users. Please refer to our attached document for further analysis.
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Meeting with Giorgio Gori (Member of the European Parliament)

28 Oct 2024 · Presentation of priorities

Meeting with Patrizia Toia (Member of the European Parliament) and Eni S.p.A.

13 Mar 2024 · EU energy policies

Meeting with Nicola Danti (Member of the European Parliament)

12 Mar 2024 · Priorità elezioni europee

Response to Revision of the EU’s electricity market design

23 May 2023

Spett.le Commissione, in allegato il commento sulla proposta di riforma dell'assetto del mercato elettrico UE, redatto congiuntamente da Elettricità Futura e Utilitalia. Cordialmente
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Response to Interservice consultation on the electricity market design reform - REMIT

3 May 2023

Dear Sirs, please find attached our comments on the proposal for the amendment of EU Regulations No 1227/2011 and 2019/942. Best regards Riccardo Frigerio - Elettricità Futura
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Meeting with Salvatore De Meo (Member of the European Parliament)

2 Mar 2022 · Various