New Decree Setting Open Access Rates
December 22, 2020 · 1 min read
On 16 de diciembre, On December 16, Decree 5 T of the Ministry of Energy was published in the Official Gazette, which “Fixes Open Access Tariffs referred to in Section 4 of Article 79 of the General Law on Electrical Services” (“Decree”). The Decree establishes the payments to be made by companies that request to use zonal and national transmission facilities, to the owner of such facilities.
This is for connection costs, engineering studies and analyses or rights of use of such facilities, as well as the technical requirements and deadlines for carrying out such work. Owners, tenants, usufructuaries, or those who operate zonal or national transmission systems in any way may not make any additional charges to the rates determined in the Decree.
The National Electricity Coordinator shall make the re-calculation of the payments made for connection cost rates and engineering studies and analyses, whose connection authorization had been granted prior to the publication of the Decree, considering the values obtained from the application of the Decree..
El Coordinador Eléctrico Nacional deberá efectuar la reliquidación de los pagos realizados por concepto de tarifas de costo de conexión y estudios y análisis de ingeniería, cuya autorización de conexión hubiese sido otorgada con anterioridad a la publicación del Decreto, considerando los valores que se obtengan de la aplicación del mismo.
Finally, the tariffs set by the Decree will apply until the entry into force of the next decree setting new open access tariffs.
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