Source: El Mercurio

In the framework of an analysis of the results of the last electricity tender for regulated customers, where the average award price was US$ 23 per MWh, the lowest on record, the consulting firm Systep states that although since 2014 the tenders allowed changing the composition of the generation park, these processes did not consider the need to ensure the complementarity of renewables in normal operating conditions; and much less in the face of crisis events, referring to the current scenario of tightness in the system, which even forced the activation of a rationing decree.

“Given the changes we are undergoing as a country in terms of achieving an increasingly cleaner energy matrix, it is important to have coherence between short- and long-term guidelines,” they postulate. And they add that although it is of great importance to have competitive energy prices for end users, for which variable renewable generation plants have been a fundamental contribution, it is equally important to identify in time the measures, mechanisms or actions that help to make visible the objective of having a clean, safe and flexible energy matrix in the long term.