AEGE , the Association of Companies with Large Energy Consumption, warns that the price of market adjustment services exceeded €20/MWh in October. Specifically, from October 1st to the 18th, the price of these services stood at €20.67/MWh, an additional cost that is added to the daily market price. This means adding these amounts to the €84.51/MWh observed during the same period of the month, i.e., a 24% increase in the price paid for market electricity supply.
“The high volatility in the price of these services is already 45% higher than in 2024, when the price reached its historical peak, and 400% higher than the prices of the last decade, which reached €3.43/MWh. These additional costs are significantly impacting our country ,” says Carlos Navalpotro, president of AEGE.
Given this situation, AEGE is calling for these prices to be stabilized and their transfer to electricity tolls, “at least the part of the technical restrictions that respond to grid congestion, as is done in practically all European countries ,” notes the association’s president. This way, electro-intensive consumers would have better visibility into the price they pay for electricity supply and could make the most appropriate decisions, both when consuming and when opting for term supply contracts, known as PPAs. The current pricing system distorts these decisions and makes long-term contracting difficult due to the uncertainty generated in the short term.
Likewise, AEGE emphasizes the European Commission’s recommendations, within the Clean Industrial Deal , which seek an effective reduction in energy costs in intensive industries, allowing them to close the gap with other economies outside the EU, increase demand for clean energy, and avoid the unfair competition they face. Under these recommendations, several countries, such as France, Germany, Denmark, and even the United Kingdom and Norway, have adopted frameworks that stabilize these costs and subsequently apply reductions to their industries, given the importance of electricity costs in competing in international markets and advancing industrial decarbonization.
