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Red Eléctrica says grid adjustment services are not system surcharges
Red Eléctrica says it does not create extra electricity costs but applies rules for keeping Spain’s power system secure.
Adjustment services help make the electricity supply physically safe after energy has been traded in the market.
Technical restrictions cost more in September as the energy used to resolve them rose 40.8% year on year and generator offer prices rose 61%.
Generators offered this energy at an average of €293.44 per megawatt-hour, compared with €143.25 for the daily market price.
Adjustment services added €3.906 billion to generators’ income from January through September, according to the operator.
After a power outage on 28 April 2025, Red Eléctrica introduced extra measures while causes were investigated and steps to prevent a repeat were put in place.
The reinforced operation cost €8.8 million in September, which the operator says amounted to two cents a day for a typical PVPC customer.
Red Eléctrica says it applies the rules for grid adjustment services and does not create extra system costs.
The system operator says technical constraints are needed to make electricity-market schedules physically safe.
Energy mobilised to resolve technical constraints rose 40.8% in September compared with the same month a year earlier, while generators’ offer prices rose 61%.
Red Eléctrica says adjustment services for technical constraints and secondary regulation added €3.906 billion to generators’ revenues from January to September.
The operator says reinforced operation cost €8.8 million in September, equivalent to about two cents a day for a typical PVPC user.
- Who
- Red Eléctrica, Spain’s electricity system operator.
- What
- It said grid adjustment services and technical constraints are not extra system costs created by the operator.
- When
- The statement was reported on October 13, 2026, and included figures for September.
- Where
- Spain’s electricity system.
- Why
- Red Eléctrica said the services help ensure system security and electricity supply while applying regulatory requirements.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
Red Eléctrica says technical-constraint services increased alongside the transformation of the electricity system.
A system blackout occurred, which Red Eléctrica says prompted additional corrective measures.
Energy mobilised to resolve technical constraints rose 40.8% year on year, and the cost of reinforced operation was €8.8 million.
Adjustment services for technical constraints and secondary regulation added €3.906 billion to generators’ revenues.
Cinco Días reported Red Eléctrica’s statement disputing that adjustment services are system surcharges.
- Energy mobilised
- Up 40.8% in September year on year
- Generator offer prices
- Up 61% in September year on year
- Average price for upward technical constraints
- €293.44 per MWh in September
- Generators’ revenues from adjustment services
- €3.906 billion from January to September
- Reinforced operation cost
- €8.8 million in September
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with a single objective: to guarantee the security of the system and the electricity supply to all consumers within the security-cost balance established by law, and to do so at the lowest price for citizens, as the applicable regulations require
making physically possible what the market has previously negotiated economically without considering the laws of physics or the regulatory safety criteria