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Design of a guarantee of supply mechanism for the Spanish Electricity Power System

November 2006 - June 2007

Funding entity Comisión Nacional de Energía (CNE)


The Spaniard electricity Regulation planned for June 2007 a revision of the capacity payment mechanism in place since 1998. It committed the Spanish Energy Regulatory Commission (Comisión Nacional de Energía) to send a proposal to the Industry Ministry to design an updated guarantee of supply mechanism with the following objectives. 1.- to guarantee an adequate capacity margin, 2.- to incentive the availability of power plants, 3.- to provide efficient investment economic signals.
This project provided a conceptual approach to the design of such a mechanism.


GSLP-CNE_2007