Electricity price increased 38.3% this Wednesday to 207.45 Euro/MWh

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Average electricity price for regulated rate customers wholesale market This will increase by 38.3% on Wednesday compared to Tuesday, to 207.45 euros per megawatt hour (MWh).

At auction, the average price of light in the wholesale market —called a pool‘– this Wednesday stands at 151.25 euro/MWh. Thus, the maximum price will be 186 euro/MWh between 10:00 and 23:00, and the minimum 130 euro/MWh for the day will be between 02:00 and 03:00. , according to provisional data from the Iberian Energy Market Operator (OMIE) collected by Europa Press.

To this ‘pool’ price is added the compensation payable to gas companies by consumers benefiting from the measure, regulated tariff (PVPC) consumers, or those with an indexed rate despite being in the free market. What will it be for Wednesday? 56.2 euros/MWh.

In this way, the electricity price will rise above Turkey’s once again. €200/MWh It will reach its maximum since the 13th of that month, for the first time since mid-October and marked 222.86 euro/MWh including compensation.

16.4% less

In the absence of an ‘Iberian exception’ mechanism that limits the price of gas for electricity generation, the electricity price in Spain is on average approx. 248.32 Euro/MWh, this means around 40.87 Euro/MWh more than customers in the regulated tariff will pay on average 16.4% less.

The ‘Iberian mechanism’, which came into force on 15 June, limits the price of gas for electricity generation to an average of 48.8 euros per MWh for a period of twelve months, thus covering the coming winter. a period when energy prices are more expensive.

Specifically, ‘Iberian exception’, natural gas for electricity generation a price increase of 40 euros/MWh in the first six months — until 15 December — and then five euros/MWh per month until the end of the measure.

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