It aims to systematically investigate the position of renewable electricity against the background of liberalising markets from the perspective of the electricity sector. The project started in May 1998 and will be concluded in October 1999. The first task of the project has been to make an inventory of the state of liberalisation and renewable energy policies in the participating countries. For this purpose each partner in the project has produced country Briefing Papers with detailed information on the state of electricity liberalisation and renewables in each of the six partner countries. This report reflects the contents of these Country Briefing Papers, which are added integrally as attachments.
Some countries are further along the liberalisation path than others.
There is a variety of incentive schemes for renewables within the member states of the European Union. There are various definitions of what counts as renewable electricity in the different member states. Sometimes there are even different definitions within member states.