Supervisory Activities

ERSE carries out  surveillance and inspection activities on companies subject to its regulation and oversight - namely network operators and other regulated infrastructures and energy suppliers - as regards matters falling within its powers.

These actions may be triggered, regardless of prior appointment, for the purpose of investigating complaints that have been brought to the attention of this Authority.

Checks and inspections are a way of monitoring the practices followed by regulated operators, allowing ERSE to fulfil, among others, the following objectives:

  • To ensure compliance with the legal and regulatory provisions applicable to its regulated operators
  • To ensure compliance with ERSE’s instructions and decisions
  • To better support the consolidation of regulated tariffs’ allowed revenues
  • To check compliance, on the part of agents in regulated sectors, with public service obligations
  • To monitor fulfilment of quality of service standards
  • To act following consumer complaints

The monitoring of compliance with rules subject to ERSE’s surveillance is carried out by ERSE’s own means or by duly accredited qualified entities with high levels of quality and independence criteria, and comprises activities carried out on site or off site. ERSE collects data and other elements from operators; it promotes visits to sites; carries out technical tests; programmed or extraordinary audits and inspections, many of which support the definition of allowed revenues through the application of regulated tariffs. Some of the inspections conducted involve sensitive and confidential information.

Sector Type Object Company

Electricidade

Audit Continuity of Supply EEM - Empresa de Electricidade da Madeira, S.A.​

Gás Natural

Inspection

Assessment of Wholesale Supplier of Last Resort operation costs

Transgás

Electricidade

Inspection Inspection of compliance with the Energy Consumption Efficiency Promotion Plan Regulation APED - Portuguese Association of Distribution Companies

Electricidade

Inspection Inspection action on compliance with the obligations set out in the Smart Grid Services Code for installations integrated in 2022 E-Redes - Distribuição de Eletricidade, S.A.​
Sector Type Object Company

Electricidade

Inspection Inspection action on domestic invoices from electricity suppliers Market suppliers

Electricidade

Audit Continuity of Supply E-Redes - Distribuição de Eletricidade, S.A.​

Electricidade

Audit Continuity of Supply EDA - Electricidade dos Açores, S.A.​

Electricidade

Inspection

Conclusions and recommendations follow up - Low voltage assets audit

E-Redes - Distribuição de Eletricidade, S.A.

Gás Natural

Inspection

Conclusions and recommendations follow up - Intragroup operations of Galp/Floene group audit

GALP/Floene

Gás Natural

Inspection

Reporting of investments in distribution

REN Portgás Distribuição, S.A.

Electricidade

Inspection

Conclusions and recommendations follow up - Investments in information systems and costs arising from the new activities undertaken by SU Eletricidade audit

S.U. Eletricidade, S.A.

Electricidade

Audit

Assessment and critical evaluation of OPEX and CAPEX allocation by voltage levels rules (HV/MV and LV) 

E-Redes - Distribuição de Eletricidade, S.A.

Electricidade

Inspection

Intra-group operations of the EDA Group, nature of maintenance operating costs of production equipment and operations with the company Graciólica

EDA,S.A.
Sector Type Object Company

ElectricidadeGás Natural

Inspection

Mistery client action to nine customer centres and three telephone service lines of electricity and natural gas suppliers to evaluate the commercial quality of service provided to customers. Two scenarios tested: increase/reduction of the contracted power (electricity sector); billing complaints (natural gas sector)

Suppliers
ElectricidadeGás Natural Audit

Audit of the compliance with the rules and procedures for the change of supplier in the electricity and natural gas sectors

 

ADENE - Agência para a Energia

Gás Natural

Audit

Invoicing of Network Access Tariffs in Natural Gas Distribution

Lisboagás GDL - Sociedade Distribuidora de Gás Natural
ElectricidadeGás Natural Inspection

On-site customer service (quality of service, complaints book)

Iberdrola Portugal

Inspection

Monitoring of accounting separation between regulated and non-regulated activities

MOBI.E

Electricidade

Audit

Low voltage assets that entered exploration, and were writed-off in 2018 and 2019

E-Redes - Distribuição de Eletricidade, S.A.

Electricidade

Audit

Application of the incentive to economic rationalisation of investments (IREI)

REN- Rede Eléctrica Nacional, S.A.

Electricidade

Audit

Investments in information systems and costs arising from the new activities undertaken by SU Eletricidade

SU Eletricidade, S.A.

Electricidade

Inspection

Supervison of Smart Grid Services Code 

EEM - Empresa de Electricidade da Madeira, S.A.