What emergency measure to stabilize electricity prices for SMEs

Due to the excessive development of wind power (intermittent energy), and the reduction in Europe of controllable means of electricity generation, notably nuclear production, the electricity market has become completely unpredictable and fluctuating, depending on the weather (temperature and wind strength), and a new element, which has appeared since September 2021 and amplified by the war in Ukraine: the volatility of gas prices, which, starting from a historically stable level of Euro 20/MWh (excluding the Covid period in 2020), rapidly reached Euro 100/MWh at the end of 2021, peaking at Euro 170/MWh in August 2022 with the virtual halt in Russian gas deliveries, and finally returning to around Euro 100/MWh. As far as European policy is concerned, it can be argued that the current situation is unsustainable for businesses, particularly SMEs, which have no means of negotiating with suppliers, and that, in a situation of pending structural reform of the European electricity market, we must therefore: - Either immediately and provisionally extend the derogation system successfully implemented in the Iberian Peninsula, or allow member states, in compliance with the principle of subsidiarity, to take the provisional regulatory measures that will enable them to safeguard their economies, as described here for France; - or allow member states, in line with the principle of subsidiarity, to take regulatory measures to safeguard their economies, as described here for France