Bill to make power grids public and boost self-consumption

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1. The bill would declare electricity distribution and transmission grids public property and recognize municipalities as owners of the grids in their territory, which they could manage directly or award as concessions.
2. It proposes a new concession system to manage the grids of each distribution zone, with tenders lasting a maximum of 10 years based on service quality, transparency and renewables. The concessions would have to be tendered no later than December 31, 2026.
3. Citizen Energy Communities could acquire, lease and manage distribution grids if they prove technical and economic capacity and reach 60% of supply points or energy in areas with more than 10,000 users, with compensation based on the book value of the assets.
4. When a new grid from an urban development supplies more than 500 CUPSCUPS The code that identifies each electricity supply point, that is, each place connected to the grid. or has more than 5 MW of contracted power, ownership would pass to the municipality, which would also receive 50% of the operating profits of the transferred infrastructure.
5. The bill would ban a single business group from taking part at the same time in generation, retailing and distribution, except for small operators with fewer than 100,000 customers.
6. The proposal extends the allowed distances between generation and consumption for collective self-consumption, especially in small towns and rural areas, and allows combining different self-consumption modes in the same industrial or residential setting.

Who it affects

• Municipalities (ayuntamientos): Would own the distribution grids in their territory and could manage them or tender them out, with technical and legal support from the Government.
• Electricity distribution companies: Would lose grid ownership, become subject to concessions of at most 10 years, and be barred from combining activities.
• Citizen Energy Communities: Could acquire, lease and manage distribution grids and supply energy to third parties.
• Consumers and self-consumption developers: Would benefit from longer allowed distances between generation and consumption and more flexibility between self-consumption modes.

Words worth knowing

Concesión administrativa

A permit by which a public administration assigns a private company the management of a public service for a limited time.

CUPS

The code that identifies each electricity supply point, that is, each place connected to the grid.

SIEG

Servicio de interés económico general: a service that public authorities must guarantee to the whole population with quality and at a reasonable cost.

Autoconsumo

Self-consumption: producing electricity, for example with solar panels, to use it yourself.

Comunidad Ciudadana de Energía

Citizen Energy Community: a group of people, companies or entities organized to generate, manage and share energy.

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