News and Events

The third meeting of the RETA Steering Committee was held virtually on the 21 March 2023, with a focus on the delivery of RETA’s five flagship projects. The Steering Committee approved RETA’s 2023 Workplan and a number of new partnerships which will ensure that RETA...

RETA facilitated the participation of African energy regulators at a meeting held in South Africa by the Climate Parliament and Modern Energy Cooking Services in February. The meeting focused on the transition from polluting cooking fuels to electricity. Regulators...

RETA held its second dissemination workshop on 4 November, in partnership with the International Confederation of Energy Regulators. The International Energy Agency presented its energy efficiency report, and the Regulatory Assistance Project presented its Blueprint...

The Global Green Growth Institute and the Organisation Eastern Caribbean States organised an interactive session on 2 November for energy regulators to discuss Regulatory Guidelines on Interconnection of Customer-Owned Renewable Energy Facilities to the Grid. This...

RETA was presented at the Renewable Energy Investment Conference 26-28 October, organised by the Energy Regulators Regional Association and the Council of European Energy Regulators, and hosted by RETA Steering Committee member, the Georgian National Energy and Water...

The second meeting of the RETA Steering Committee took place on 8 September and approved five flagship projects:   Small Island Developing States knowledge exchange Principles for interconnectors Decarbonisation in energy regulators’ decision making Real time...

RETA partnered with the International Confederation of Energy Regulators to provide a dissemination workshop on the International Renewable Energy Agency’s Reorganising Power Systems for the Transition report in July. IRENA’s report explores enablers and barriers to...

The first public event held under RETA “Accelerating the energy transition through international collaboration” took place on 21 June. It brought together Audrey Zibelman, Vice President of Tapestry, X’s Electric Grid Moonshot and Jonathan Brearley, CEO of Ofgem to...

The International Energy Agency (IEA), International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), Ofgem and World Bank launched at the COP26 a global initiative “Regulatory Energy Transition Accelerator” to accelerate the energy transition to provide clean, secure, and affordable supplies to everyone. Energy regulators have a key role to play in turning ambition into real-world action in hitting global climate goals. The Regulatory Accelerator enables them to collaborate to seize opportunities and solve problems to speed up the global energy transition at the lowest cost.


In particular, it can help countries with less developed energy systems to leapfrog the carbon-intensive paths other countries have previously taken.
The joint statement launched at COP26 can be found here.