Redeia says balancing services costs do not boost Red Eléctrica revenue, total EUR 70 million through Aug 31

• Redeia said Spain’s balancing services are regulated system mechanisms, not a surcharge, with costs largely driven by technical constraints.
• Balancing-service costs excluding SRAD totaled EUR 70 million through Aug. 31, or 0.28% of a EUR 25 billion power bill.
• Total balancing-service costs including SRAD exceeded EUR 3.6 billion through Aug. 31, up 34.5% year on year.
• Technical-constraints costs reached about EUR 3.1 billion; average uplift price was EUR 194.85/MWh versus EUR 68.53/MWh in the day-ahead market.
• Redeia said it does not receive these costs; generator bids set constraint prices, while CNMC-regulated revenue is unrelated to dispatched energy.

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