The National Markets and Competition Commission (CNMC) has agreed to a reduction, on average, of 1.1% for access tolls to electricity transportation and distribution networks for 2024 compared to those applied this year, according to the resolution approved by the organization and communicated this Tuesday.
This was one of the measures that were contemplated in the sector to compensate companies for the end of measures such as the suspension of the tax on the production of electrical energy. Although it is still unknown where these will stand after tomorrow’s Council of Ministers.
Specifically, the CNMC’s decision means that for consumers connected at low voltage (domestic and SMEs) they remain practically frozen and are reduced for those connected at high voltage (industrial) due to the greater weight of the transport toll in the latter. .
Tolls are one of the fixed parts of the electricity bill, along with the charges – which are set annually by the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge – and the CNMC is in charge of regulating them, being intended to cover the costs of the networks. and the remuneration to distribution and transportation companies for their investments.
The remuneration for transport and distribution activities considered in the tolls will be 6,377.235 million euros in 2024, compared to 6,372.8 million euros this year. Of this figure, 1,183.14 million euros will correspond to the remuneration of the transmission network -Red Eléctrica-, a figure that will be 10.3% less than in 2023, as a consequence of a reduction in remuneration of 9.7% and the imputation of the deviations for the 2022 financial year.
Meanwhile, the remuneration to the distribution network in 2024 will amount to 5,194.08 million euros, 2.8% higher than that considered in the calculation of the tolls for the year 2023, as a consequence of an increase in the remuneration to the distribution of the 4.1%, compensated by the imputation of deviations for fiscal year 2022.
The organization chaired by Cani Fernández highlighted that the access tolls to the transportation and distribution networks have been determined taking into account the estimate of the transportation and distribution remuneration that results from applying Circular 5/2019 and Circular 6/ 2019. Additionally, he stressed that, in accordance with article 5 of Circular 3/2002, part of the deviations in remuneration and income from previous years have been considered.
In addition, he indicated that the imputation of a part of the deviations is postponed with the aim of mitigating the impact of the remuneration increases expected for future years on tolls.
