The president of the National Energy Commission (CNE), María Teresa Costa, considers it necessary to raise the possibility that the cost of premiums for renewable energies not only falls on consumers of electricity, but is also assumed by other groups.
Costa makes this consideration in a particular vote to the CNE report on the revision of electricity access rates as of January 1. This report was issued before the Government approved a royal decree law with urgent measures to contain the costs of the electricity system, including cutting by 2,200 million in three years the premiums to photovoltaic.
The president of the CNE considers that "it is necessary to begin to consider the possibility that this remuneration of renewable energies is not only financed by electricity consumers", without making more details about which other sectors should also assume this cost.
At the end of last year and under the shelter of the debates of the congressional subcommittee on the energy strategy for the next 25 years, the possibility was suggested that other energy products such as fuels assume part of the cost of renewables, and previously the electricity companies had proposed that the cost of renewables pass from the electricity tariff to the General State Budgets (PGE) for taxpayers to assume and not consumers.
In his private opinion, Costa calls for regulatory reforms that reconcile the need to meet the community's objectives in renewables with the adequate financing of these energies. As he indicates, "the achievement of these objectives rests to a large extent on the electricity sector".
The president of the CNE also points out that for 2011 the cost of the special regime, which includes renewables, will amount to 6,759 million, which is equivalent to 38% of the cost of regulated activities. This calculation was made before the Government approved the royal decree law with the urgent measures for the electricity system.
OTHER CONTAINMENT MEASURES.
Costa also includes different measures proposed by the CNE to contain the costs of the electricity system, some of which have not been incorporated by the Government.
These include the elimination in the remuneration of transport assets already amortized before 2008, as well as discounting the cost of efficiency and savings plans between 2006 and 2009, whose imputation to the tariff considered illegal by the Supreme Court.
ABILITY TO SET RATES.
For his part, the vice president of the regulator, Fernando Martí, has also issued a particular vote to the electricity tariff report in which he regrets that the role of the CNE in the calculation of the rates barely passes from "a mere administrative procedure". "I think it should be the CNE that has all the powers in the elaboration of the tariffs," he says.
Martí also echoes the difficulties of high-voltage consumers such as municipalities or SMEs to get hold of an electricity offer in the free market. The CNE considers that there are still 152,916 consumers in this situation, of which 32% are public administrations. (EUROPA PRESS)
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