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EU grid power struggle: capitals push back against Brussels tariff rules

European Union governments are pushing back against a Brussels drive to reshape electricity network costs, watering down plans for coordinated tariffs as the fight over the bloc’s expensive and congested power grids becomes increasingly political.

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00:01European Union governments want to weaken a proposal that would hand Brussels greater control over the bloc's power grid.
00:09They prefer to retain control of how electricity networks are paid for and managed, according to a Council document seen
00:17by Euronews.
00:18The EU wants homes and businesses to switch from fossil fuels to electricity, while manufacturers, data centers, heat pumps and
00:26electric vehicles are all expected to drive up demand.
00:30For the Commission, common rules are a way of making the bloc's fragmented power market more transparent and efficient.
00:37But EU countries are resisting anything that could force them to redesign national tariff systems that reflect very different grids,
00:45industries and consumer bases.
00:48The political stakes become even clearer when it comes to new grid connections.
00:52The EU is facing growing queues for grid access as factories, renewable projects or data centers compete for limited capacity.
01:02A large group of countries broadly support giving governments a stronger role.
01:06They argue that deciding which projects get scarce grid capacity is not merely a technical exercise,
01:12it involves political choices about industrial competitiveness, energy security and social priorities.
01:19The Commission argues that setting technical criteria and network charges is fundamentally a regulatory task.
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