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InnoBlog: Alumni perspectives: working at the EU Agency for energy regulators
EIT InnoEnergy Master’s programme leads alumna Emilia Chojkiewicz to position at the European Union.
The EU Agency for the Cooperation for Energy Regulators (ACER) is an Agency of the European Union. Its broad goal is to promote integrated European energy markets.This includes monitoring the implementation of EU legislation in the Member States, upholding transparent energy markets through surveillance, fostering cooperation amongst National Regulatory Authorities (NRAs), and protecting consumers and ensuring a high degree of security of supply within the low-carbon transition.
As one of the EU’s decentralised agencies, its headquarters are located in the beautiful city of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Courses that made an impact on my career
For my second year in the EIT InnoEnergy Master’s in Smart Electrical Networks and Systems (SENSE), I studied at KU Leuven in Belgium. During the second semester, I took two elective courses which changed my career trajectory: Electricity and Gas Markets, and Energy Law. The former introduced me to ACER through a guest lecture on gas markets from two of my now-colleagues; the latter introduced me to the role of the EU’s energy policy, in establishing the agency and shaping its activities.
