Michel Derdevet (an academic and a director of RTE, the French national electricity grid company/EDF) has written a book which criticises the EU directive requiring markets in electricity and gas and supporting policies based more on solidarity and 'service public'.
Euractiv reported: ‘In a book, Michel Derdevet, a lecturer at Sciences Po, called for the construction of "a European energy community based on the model of the euro zone". The community would be launched "by a minority of member states and open to others which might join later," he said. The project would "reposition competition policy," which he argues is "unsuited to the characteristics of the electricity and gas sectors".’ http://www.euractiv.com/en/opinion/industrial-policy-key-issue-barroso-i...
In an extract from the book he calls for annual debates at national level where countries can decide the best way for them to organise their systems at http://energie.lexpansion.com/articles/prospective/2009/06/L-Europe-doit... .
He also has an interesting positive line on the Euromed linkup http://energie.lexpansion.com/articles/Prospective/2008/07/Pour-un-vrai-... .