EU-kommissionen mener at have skabt et ikke-skadeligt loft over gaspriser. I august måtte forbrugere og virksomheder betale historisk høje priser for gas. Den situation vil EU-kommissionen forhindre i fremtiden med en ny mekanisme, som man mener lægger et loft over priserne, men uden at hæmme udbuddet. Energi-kommissær Kedri Simson (fra Sverige) forklarer: ”This is not a regulatory intervention to set the price on the gas market at an artificially low level. It is a mechanism of last resort to prevent and, if necessary, address episodes of excessively high prices, which are not in line with global price trends. Let me explain how the mechanism will work. We propose an upper ceiling on the month-ahead TTF price in case it exceeds 275 euros per megawatt hour. Beyond that price, transactions will not be able to take place. The market correction mechanism will be triggered when two conditions are met. First, the gas price exceeds a predefined level, which we set at 275 euros, for two weeks. Second, the spread between the TTF price and global LNG price is 58 euros or more for ten trading days. This last condition is critical to ensure that intervention happens only when the TTF gas price is no longer reflecting the market fundamentals. It is also crucial to ensure we would be able to continue to attract LNG.”
Sten Thorup Kristensen
