MADRID, 17 Ago. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The average price of electricity for regulated rate customers linked to the wholesale market will fall 11.5% on Thursday compared to this Wednesday, to 208.96 euros per megawatt hour (MWh), according to provisional data from the Operator of the Iberian Energy Market (OMIE) collected by Europa Press.
This price is the result of adding the average of the auction in the wholesale market to the compensation that the demand will pay to the combined cycle plants for the application of the ‘Iberian exception’ to cap the price of gas for the generation of electricity.
In the auction, the average price of electricity in the wholesale market – the so-called ‘pool’ – stood for this Thursday at 134.67 euros/MWh. The maximum price will be registered between 10:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m., with 189.33 euros/MWh, while the minimum for the day, of 98.6 euros/MWh, will occur between 5:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m.
To this price of the ‘pool’ is added the compensation of 74.29 euros/MWh to the gas companies that has to be paid by the consumers who benefit from the measure, the consumers of the regulated rate (PVPC) or those who, despite being in the free market, they have an indexed rate.
In the absence of the ‘Iberian exception’ mechanism to cap the price of gas for electricity generation, the price of electricity in Spain would be on average around 348.21 euros/MWh, which is around 139.2 euros/MWh more than with the compensation for clients of the regulated tariff, who will thus pay almost 40% less on average.
The ‘Iberian mechanism’, which came into force on June 15, limits the price of gas for electricity generation to an average of 48.8 euros per MWh over a period of twelve months, thus covering the coming winter, a period in which which energy prices are more expensive.
Specifically, the ‘Iberian exception’ sets a path for natural gas for electricity generation at a price of 40 euros/MWh in the initial six months, and subsequently, a monthly increase of five euros/MWh until the end of the measure .
This Wednesday at a press conference, the Third Vice President of the Government and Minister for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, Teresa Ribera, estimated that the Iberian exception has meant a saving of 1,383 million euros for Spanish consumers in its two months of validity .
Ribera indicated that this figure represents a saving of 22 million euros per day for Spanish society since the entry into force of the mechanism.
