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CIEP Seminar "Energy Market Liberalisation: 1998-2008 and beyond"
September 4, 2008. On the 6th of October the Clingendael International Energy Programme will organise the seminar: "Energy Market Liberalisation: 1998-2008 and beyond". The summer of 1998 saw the start of the liberalization of the Dutch energy market, when the new Electricity Act 1998 was partially put into operation and large electricity consumers got their freedom to choose the supplier they want. Two years later, with the Gas Act 2000, the same applied for natural gas. In a gradual process of learning-by-doing, the Dutch electricity and gas markets reached the level of full market opening in July 2004. Read more »