Ireland – October 31, 2026 -- The EU Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) has found Ireland's proposed gas transmission reference price methodology largely compliant with the EU Network Code on Harmonised Transmission Tariff Structures (NC TAR), but says the treatment of the Corrib Linkline fails the criteria for non-transmission tariffs.

European Union – October 31, 2026 -- The EU Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) has approved amended implementation frameworks for the PICASSO and MARI electricity balancing platforms. It adopted Decisions 12/2026 and 13/2026 and added three prequalification options for balancing service providers (BSPs).

European Union – October 31, 2026 -- The EU Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) found that institutional frameworks for hydrogen network planning remain incomplete across Member States, limiting alignment with the EU-wide Ten-Year Network Development Plan (EU TYNDP). The finding comes from its latest Opinion on national gas and hydrogen Network Development Plans (NDPs).

Europe – October 31, 2026 -- Switching to dynamic pricing and shifting consumption to cheaper periods could have saved EU households an average of 20%, or about €120, on electricity bills in 2025, according to ACER analysis in its 2026 Monitoring Report on retail energy markets.

Europe – October 31, 2026 -- The EU Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) will open a public consultation on 5 November 2026 on the preliminary version of EU-Flex, an open-source electricity market model built to assess flexibility needs across the EU. The consultation will run until 17 December 2026.

European Union – October 31, 2026 -- EU underground gas storage stood at 75% of capacity on 21 October 2026, and the upper-bound cost of refilling it this year reached €27 billion, according to the latest gas Monitoring Report from the EU energy regulators' agency ACER.

European Union – October 31, 2026 -- The EU Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) has published the first of three sets of revised REMIT data reporting guidance. Its first-phase requirements apply from 29 October 2027.

Windhof – October 31, 2026 -- A consortium led by Sword Services Greece has been ranked first for a four-year framework contract worth an estimated €93 million to develop and maintain the EU's Entry/Exit System (EES). The award came under the Dynamic Purchasing System of eu-LISA, the EU agency for large-scale IT systems.

Bremen – October 30, 2026 -- At current reinvestment rates, fully renewing Europe's drinking water networks would take between roughly 90 years in Belgium and 1,000 years in Finland, according to a new study by engineering consultancy Sweco.

The study, titled "Old Pipes, New Pressure" (German: "Alte Rohre, neuer Druck"), uses EurEau investment data from 2026 and reported network lengths. It finds that spending levels alone do not show whether networks are being renewed at a sustainable pace.

Wiesbaden – October 30, 2026 -- Germany's Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) will publish four datasets on Thursday, 5 November 2026, led by September manufacturing orders and turnover, and will follow on Friday, 6 November with the September production index.

Thursday brings manufacturing, services and labour cost data

Release No. 385 covers manufacturing orders and turnover for September 2026. Destatis will also publish services turnover for August 2026 (No. 387) and the labour cost survey for 2024 (No. 388).