This paper examines how the digitalisation of energy markets, driven by smart meter data and Energy Data Spaces, is reshaping competition in retail electricity services. It analyses the implications for market power, consumer outcomes, and data sovereignty, highlighting the regulatory challenges posed by data-driven business models that operate across national boundaries.
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Energy Data Spaces
About the Author:
EMANUELE GIOVANNETTI (PhD, MPhil Cantab, Trinity College) is Professor of Economics at Anglia Ruskin University, Senior Fellow in Economics at Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge, Vice-Rapporteur for Study Group 1 of the International Telecommunications Union, Development Bureau on ‘Economic policies and methods of determining the cost of services related to National Telecommunication/ICT networks’, and Vice Chair for the Focus Group on ‘Costing Data Services’ of the International Telecommunications Union, Standardisation Sector. He is Associate Editor of the Eurasian Business Review. His research focuses on market power on the internet, mobile internet access, ICT platforms, Energy Data Spaces, Digital divide, Crowdfunding, Diffusion of mobile social networking and the adoption of new technologies. He has advised governments, competition authorities and businesses in Europe, Africa and Asia on Internet access and competition economics and has led multidisciplinary and multinational projects focusing on network competition, internet infrastructure, and mobile access in developing countries.