Distributors are denying the hook for hundreds of photovoltaic plants and wind turbines, which cannot release its production. The conflict ended so far in the CNE, but a policy change has strengthened the role of the autonomous communities. The electrical networks say they have no capacity to absorb the avalanche of photovoltaics, which exceeds by almost 20 times the expected and proliferate for ‘Succulents premiums.
Encouraging production of renewable energy with premiums that, in the case of photovoltaics implies a price of 440 euros per MW, compared to about 70 euros for the rest of energy in the wholesale market, has turned this into a tasty business. However, a lot of these producers, which are counted by thousands, are watching their joy in a well to encounter the negative power of large distributors to give them access to their networks and thus to release its production.
Indeed rare is the council’s weekly meeting of the Committee on Energy, which does not raise the resolution of any conflict of this type. So, last Thursday opened an information package to Iberdrola after, where appropriate, disciplinary proceedings, over 600 requests for access to many investors, who have five plates each kW through the solar company. Several weeks ago opened another sanctioning to Union Fenosa for ‘unreasonably deny “access to your network to a small trader.
As if the challenges that face the generators of the special arrangements, particularly solar and wind, when accessing the network are few, there has been an important policy change that has complicated the situation at the time of resolution of conflicts.
The law of July 17, 2007, which involved the adaptation of the Electricity Law to the European directive on the sector, provided that the request for access to the distribution of these plants have previously had a connection point where, until Now, it was the other way around: operators only took the connection point (which should give the autonomous region), when they had secured such access.
If the electrical coupling is denied the central government (through the CNE), which has the power to resolve. Prior to the entry into force of the law of July, the regulator had looked a hundred conflicts, 99%, decided in favor of the producers, because the electrical ‘access is denied without justification. “The right may only be restricted, according to the rule, ‘for lack of necessary capacity’, for reasons unique to ‘safety, regularity or quality of supply.
Now, from that small producers and traders need to have a connection before (a transformer) to be granted self-government, the problems accumulate in the communities. Indeed, after the entry into force of the law and cannot ask for protection of access to the conflict who do not have a CNE connection, because the regulator does not support them. For its part, the region cannot deny the connection because of access, whose jurisdiction is the regulator.
Lack of capacity
The distributors are claiming lack of capacity of their networks to absorb the strong demand to deny access, while individual applications are low power plants. ‘The problem, say in a power-is that the Government has provided 341 MW of photovoltaic and are about to install over 1,000 MW. In addition, applications exceeded 10,000 MW, which is expected to exceed those in almost 20 times, according to industry figures, “so appealing to investors who are as succulent as the primary sites.
The amount of requests, according to the companies’ work forces to make major expansion of capacity at which obliges the regulator in case of conflict that are not profitable. Moreover, they indicate the same sources, has forced the autonomous communities to intervene rearranging government energy planning, that the CNE can be considered illegal.
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