El nuevo ministro de industria, Comercio y Turismo, Joan Clos, announced several weeks ago that his department hopes to make progress in the study of the new tariff framework.
Well then, knowing this man from his career in the Barcelona city council and still living the management that he has carried out, there are reasons to tremble. All of us who live in Barcelona know, by “experience in our meats”, that always, always, It is the end user who ends up paying the price..
Clos recalled that regulated electricity rates will disappear in 2011, although there will be a shelter rate for the most vulnerable sectors.
'We will ensure that rates have a better recognition of costs', Clos explained after appearing at the Industry Commission, Congress Tourism and Commerce.
The minister pointed out that the evolution of the costs of the electricity sector is 'increasingly linked’ at the price of crude oil, since most of the new plants, those of combined cycle, They use natural gas to generate electricity.
'It is evidence that we have to keep in mind. Let's see how we include it in the rate., Indian.
The goal, according to Clos, is to define 'a framework that is as stable as possible that favors the generation of a true market that allows competitiveness and good service'.
'I hope that in the coming weeks we can give unequivocal signs of progress in this regard. It is an important element and we are already working hard., added.
Clos specified that the new tariff framework 'will neither favor nor disfavor mergers'.
Weeks later Clos inaugurated the III Euro-Mediterranean Energy Forum, where he confirmed that “electricity prices have so far been “artificially low” and emphasized that “we cannot continue subsidizing” electricity rates”.
Today 22 January Joan Clos has confirmed that he plans to make quarterly price reviews and update it according to the price of a barrel of crude oil.
I close this entry with this note: last summer, Brent, reference crude oil in Europe, reached the 78 dollars per barrel, in front of the 53 dollars it costs today.
We will see the evolution of the topic and the impact that this will have….