Retail suppliers’ margins and the Energy Bills Decree: transparency ambitions, legal concerns and market risks

Article by Francesco Piron.

The Energy Bills Decree introduces a new obligation for retail energy suppliers to disclose their margins, with the stated aim of enhancing transparency and competition.
However, the new rules raise a number of concerns, ranging from the disclosure of commercially sensitive information and the challenges of comparing inherently heterogeneous data, to increased compliance burdens, particularly for smaller market participants. More broadly, the measure reflects a growing expansion of public oversight into dynamics traditionally governed by the free market.

The full article is available on Quotidiano Energia.