MADRID, 5 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The average price of electricity for regulated rate customers linked to the wholesale market will drop 31.4% on Thursday compared to this Wednesday, to 186.08 euros/MWh, according to provisional data from the Iberian Energy Market Operator (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’ – stands for this Thursday at 113.11 euros/MWh. The maximum price will be registered between 10:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m., with 220 euros/MWh, while the minimum for the day, of 75 euros/MWh, will be between 05:00 and 06:00.
To this price of the ‘pool’ is added the compensation of 72.91 euros/MWh to the gas companies that has to be paid by the consumers who are beneficiaries of 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 an average of 219.31 euros/MWh, which is 33 euros/MWh more than with compensation for regulated rate customers, who will thus pay 15% 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 .
