Saturday, March 20, 2021 - 03:14 am GAS & POWER Home GAS & POWER MARKET LIBERALIZATION The opening of the energy market, in application of Community Directives 96/92 and 98/30, was regulated by the "Bersani decree" (Legislative Decree 79/99), for electricity, and by the "Letta decree" (Legislative Decree 164/2000), for gas. These measures set the stage for the liberalization of the production, import, export, purchase and sale of electricity and the import, export and sale of natural gas. Before liberalization, Italy was subject to a monopolistic regime for both electricity and natural gas. All activities related to the production, transport and sale of energy were reserved exclusively for Enel (also the other energy producing companies could only sell energy to Enel and were not authorized to put it directly on the market). The first phase of the process promoted and developed competition between the various market operators, keeping the distributor in charge of the transport of energy on the electricity network, a service that the distributor has the obligation to guarantee with continuity and efficiency. The second phase, opened by the implementing decree of the Directive of 2003/54 (legislative decree no. 73/07 converted into law L. 125/07), favored the liberalization of sales activities also for domestic users. In fact, as early as 1999, it was possible to use a free market operator for users other than the home; The same argument can be extended to the gas market. Before liberalization, it too was managed under a monopoly regime and all the activities in the supply chain were attributable to ENI, with the exception of distribution characterized by a fragmentation of market shares (whose leader was Italgas, a company controlled by ENI). The reform introduced by the liberalization also concerns the commercial aspects of the service: in the free market, in fact, the vendor companies purchase electricity and gas and use the national and local transport networks for delivery to the final customer. The various network services (energy distribution, meters, consumption measurements, etc.) are provided by the Distributor and the tariffs are established by the Electricity and Gas Authority (AEEG) with uniform criteria for the whole national territory. The operator of the sale invoices the final customer not only for the energy quota but also the so-called "passers-by" charges as they are collected to be paid to the distribution companies. GAS & POWER Documentation MARKET SERVICES UNICOENERGIA INFORMS Registered office Via R. Bracco, 71 80138 Naples Naples office Piazza dei Martiri, 30 Naples Tel. 0810102020 Branch of Rome Piazza del Popolo, 3 - 00187 Rome Tel. 0662279791 Emotion Showroom Via Vicinale Santa Maria del Pianto tower 3 at the INAIL multifunctional center Tel. 0815757091 Newsletter Sign up to our newsletter OK © Copyright 2017 Unicoenergia SRL | VAT number 07615521213, Share capital Euro 100,000 IV Home Newsletter Contacts Work with us Privacy Terms of use Who we are EFFICIENCY GAS & POWER EMOBILITY Events Work with us