Circular 1/2024, of 27 September, of the National Commission on Markets and Competition

Circular 1/2024, of 27 September, of the National Commission on Markets and Competition, which establishes the methodology and conditions for access and connection to the transmission and distribution networks of electricity demand facilities (the "Circular"), was published in the Official State Gazette (“BOE”) last Friday.

The Circular complements the rules (mainly, Royal Decree-Law 8/2023 and Royal Decree 1183/2020) on access to and connection to the networks of demand requests, either through the self-consumption of generation facilities, or for large consumptions such as those required for stand-alone storage and for infrastructures such as data centers.

In this alert we will address the measures contained in the Circular that regulates, among others, the criteria for evaluating the availability of access capacity for demand and the procedure for requesting and obtaining access and connection permits and introduces the concept of flexible access, in order to optimize the use of networks.


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