The wind sector ingresa 53 millions less in January by the application of the new measures
14 March 2013
According to the data of the CNE, the unitary premium by kWh (the incentive that earns the sector to reduce the energetic dependency and the broadcasts contaminantes) has happened of 4,187 cents of euro by kWh in January of 2012 to 3,88 cents of euro in January of 2013, what would suppose 7,2% less. This data already includes the measures of the Royal decree-Law 2/2013, that went in in force in February with retroactive effects, but no the new tax of 7% on the generation. After applying this gravamen, the real reduction of the incentive is of 21,4% (3,292 cents of euro by kWh).
For the group of the wind sector, the data of the CNE aim to an increase of the total of the incentives of 62% (due to the fact that the wind production grew 73% in January like consequence of the strong winds that have blown on the Peninsula, what situated it like the first technology of the electrical system). But, if it takes into account the impact of the tax of 7%, the incentives of all the wind parks went up only 37,9%, very underneath of what increased the generation.
In January went in in force the Royal decree-Law 2/2013, that deletes the option of the companies to perceive the price of market more a premium and that involves a de facto reduction of the incentives for modifying the parameters with which these update . Besides, it has begun to apply the Law of Fiscal Measures for the Energetic Sustainability and, with her, the new tax of 7% on the electrical production, whose payment allocates to pay the premiums and supposes a minoración equivalent in the reward regulated.
The wind has generated 57% of the electricity of the Special Diet (6,28 TWh) in the month and has supposed 34% of the real premiums.
January reflects that the measures of the Government have a strong impact in the income of the wind companies, as it already had warned AEE. These measures, that are retroactive, vulneran the principles of reasonable profitability, juridical hygiene and legitimate confidence, by what put in check the future of the sector. Thus, AEE considers that the Government would have to reconsider them.
