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EPEX Spot in antitrust spotlight again as EU regulator suspects it hampered rival electricity exchanges

By Nicholas Hirst
  • 30 Mar 2021 06:30
  • 30 Mar 2021 06:30
EPEX Spot, Europe's leading power intermediary, has attracted further scrutiny from regulators, with the European Commission announcing an abuse of dominance inquiry today.
Investigators are concerned that it may have limited the ability of rival power exchanges' customers to access all the electricity available on a given day, hampering those

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Nicholas Hirst

Chief Correspondent


Nicholas covers EU merger review and antitrust investigations for Mlex in Brussels. He previously wrote about EU affairs for Politico Europe, European Voice and PaRR. After earning an LLM in European law from the College of Europe in Bruges, he spent a year working in the competition practice of a leading competition law firm in Brussels 2009-10. He graduated in modern European languages from Oxford University in 2006.

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