The Association for the Energy Transition (ATE) has asked the National Markets and Competition Commission (CNMC) to fundamentally change its circular methodology for calculating remuneration for investments in electricity networks for the next regulatory period, which begins soon.
In a statement, the ATE expressed concern about what it believes is the existing situation in regulating investments in electricity networks in Spain, a factor that it sees as capital for the energy transition and the decarbonization of the economy.
The association argues that the State Council, at the request of the CNMC, issued an opinion in which it pointed out a contradiction between the provisions of the regulatory authority’s circular and the developments of the Ministry of Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, interpreting this as an overstepping of the regulatory function in the field of energy policy.
The ATE defends that these conclusions of the CNMC are consistent with the opinion already expressed by this association in the two reproach proceedings carried out in recent months.
For all these reasons, it is considered necessary that the CNMC revise its draft circular at the meeting next Monday, December 22nd, as there is not enough time to prepare a new circular and submit it to a public consultation on the changes that must be made so that it can come into force on January 1st, 2026.
In this way, ATE proposes that the current method of reimbursing the verified costs remains in force, which in its opinion has “worked so far”, and that in the coming months it will present a new proposal for a circular adapted to the recommendations of the Council of State, the framework of the energy policy promoted by the Ministry in relation to networks and the creation of positive incentives for the implementation of the current and future investments that, in its opinion, the Spanish economy needs.
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