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26 May 2006 - According to a new Eurostat survey, the electricity markets of only ten of the 25 EU member states have been completely opened as of September 2005.
The EU's statistical office, Eurostat, published an overview of the state of the European electricity markets on 22 May 2006. It found that ten member states had opened their markets completely by September 2005: Denmark, Germany, Spain, Ireland, the Netherlands, Austria, Portugal, Finland, Sweden and the UK.
The report noted that conventional thermal power stations still dominate electricity production, accounting for 58 cent of installed capacity in the EU, with nuclear power accounting for 19 per cent (half of it in France alone), hydropower 18 per cent, and wind turbines five per cent.
Wind power has made the strongest progress since 2000. It increased its installed capacity by 154 per cent. Wind power is especially well developed in Denmark (23 per cent), Germany (13 per cent) and Spain (12 per cent).
Cross-border trade in electricity is still limited by the carrying capacity of the interconnections.
The overview comes as the Commission has started a new to push against anti-competitive behaviour in the European energy markets. The EU Commission earlier in the week carried out unannounced visits to a number of major energy companies across Europe in pursuit of this goal.
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