The reform of the Government paralyses 1800 MW of cogeneration from the summer of 2013

The stop of the plants of cogeneration confirms that the real calculations realizar by the satisfied companies the methodologies of the new draft of Ministerial order of rewards appeared at the beginning of month, do unfeasible the activity.

These calculations launch some rewards that directly situate in operative losses to the majority of the at present installed plants, that is to say, there is not margin to be able to manufacture, the costs are upper to the income and taxles that has fixed the Government. This reality contradicts the expectations of maintenance of the installed power that the Office of State of the Power had communicated to Receive, as well as the disposals of the Law 24/2013 of the Electrical Sector, that guarantee a reasonable profitability to installations like the cogeneration of high efficiency. This supposes to put in danger the achievement of important aims of energetic politics so much national like European, reflected in diverse community Directives.

The cogeneration dragged successive cuts to the reward realizar in 2013 by value of more than 650 million euros, 22% of all his income. The methodology announced in the OM for the reward, that contemplates an upper cut to 1.000 million euros, has done to go in in panic to the installations, since no adecua at all neither to the operation neither to the situation of the industries that use cogeneration to manufacture his products.

The parameters retributivos posed in the OM do not reflect all the technologies of the industries cogeneradoras neither consider the reality of his hours of operation. Neither they fix the levels of market of correct electricity, situating to the plants in losses.

The Law, the proposal of decree and the order of developments establish clear and tajantemente that will cover all the costs of operation of the plants that use fuels, as well as his costs by energetic taxles, CO₂, maintenance, etc. However, cientos of companies have realizar his calculations checking that they do not cover the costs and the stops of plants go sucediendo for minorar the losses, whereas in others is not possible to do it since it would comport directly stop the production of the industry associated.

The impact of these cuts on the competitiveness of the industries, his capacity of export and his employment will do useless all the efforts of economic recovery realizar by the companies up to now and sumirán to the country in a negative GDP going back to the recession.

The impact in the payment of energetic taxles and of societies will be demoledor. To continue the stops to the current rhythm will generate in the industry associated a stage of enclosures, deslocalizaciones and loss of impossible employment to quantify in these moments, since it has put in high risk to more than 20% of all the industry manufacturera of this country, to which urges to renounce to have competitive energetic costs, precisely in a moment in which all the countries of Europe treat to attract to the industry to his territories and to promote the industrial activity like pillar to grow and revertir the crisis.