The Government light up at will despite the liberalization of the electricity sector
The millions of home users benefiting from the electricity tariff of last resort (TUR) have endured with stoicism on the very strong rise of almost 10%, which is applied to your purchases in January. The Ministry of Industry ensures no increase in April, but once past the May elections, it is considered certain to be further increases.
For the period between April and July, the wholesale electricity auction scheduled for Tuesday, March 22, 2011 will have to offset the sharp rise of 12.5% \u200b\u200bto the department led by Miguel Sebastian wants to apply to the regulated part of rate. Ministry calculates that demand always decreases in spring and that a substantial drop in electricity prices will help offset the other increases.
Who decides the price of light, in a market where changes should respond to the automatic application of a range of costs?
Despite announcements of neutrality, the final figure is decided by the Government at your convenience. That was up 10% in January and remained 'frozen' in July 2010. But with the legacy of accumulated tariff deficit and current economic situation, nor can afford to always pass the costs, let alone to act in favor of price stabilization.
Government Will it break its own rules?
Leticia Blázquez, University of Castilla-La Mancha, he says, in a fun comparison, the English electricity sector has become a sort of game of Chinese dishes. The Executive juggle a stick by one-renewable premiums, the deficit recovery, aid carbon offsets to power plants that burn gas, changes in international prices of raw materials, without neglecting any so that you do not drop the dishes and avoid the collapse of the system. Sometimes the regulation applies, and leaves other side, depending on your needs.
why the rate has risen 48% in just over three years?
also have experienced increased raw materials upon receipt loaded many legacies. The Government has the capacity to decide about halfway up, which is known as 'access fees'. There are the costs of the system from renewable raw to the transmission and distribution networks, through the accumulated deficit and compensation for nuclear moratorium. The other half is a function of energy prices, calculated on a quarterly auction in which marketers buy electricity from generators. When The Ministry estimates that the auction will get a big increase, opt to freeze tolls. Now think about that experience a decline, and so has proposed raising the regulated part.
How does the auction determines the price of energy?
Each quarter, traders who sell to customers who are buying rate at a fixed price most of the electricity they sell them in the coming months. The bid price is made downward and then physical contracts are signed. This system allows you to set a price without the daily wholesale market fluctuations, but the National Energy Commission has come to report that in the days before bids are typically caused sharp increases. So suggests reform.
Are we condemned to pay a lot more light than it costs for many years?
From the National Energy Commission to many industry experts believe that rather than modify the components of electric generation facilities, renewable energy are here to stay and rethinking nuclear not have to change a wholesale market clearly inefficient to develop interconnections and prevent governments continually renegotiated with stakeholders, because that means overflowing and confusing regulation sometimes does not apply and deters investors.
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