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Market coupling does not lower prices! / Georg Zachmann, EU energy policy blog, October 1st, 2012http://www.energypolicyblog.com/2012/10/01/market-coupling-does-not-lower-prices/Market coupling is one of the key-policies for achieving the EU single electricity market. The EU Commission praises the price-lowering effects of market integration in the first draft of the Internal Market Communication of August 30th: “wholesale electricity prices in the EU have risen much less thanks to competition facilitated by increasing cross-border trading and market integration”...