Currently, producing electricity using fuel oil No. 2 is not feasible due to the high price price of fuel in international markets, which implies an increase in the cost of purchasing fuel. energy on the part of the Electricity Distribution Companies (EDE), according to the recent report of the Ministry of Energy and Mines (MEM).
The MEM bulletin on generation and management of energy of November 2024, highlights that the prices of energy in the market contracts were affected last month by the volatility of commodity prices. fuelsthis being the cost component with the highest incidence.
In November 2024, EDEs acquired 1,558 gigawatt-hours (GWh), equivalent to 81% of the physical withdrawals made from the National Interconnected Electrical System (SENI). “This energy was distributed 82% for the purchase of energy through contracts with generation companies electricitywhich corresponds to 1,278 GWhand the remaining 18% corresponds to the purchase of energy in the opportunity or spot market, made up of all electricity generation companies electricity of the Wholesale Electricity Market that have surpluses of energy not assigned to a legal commitment with another market agent,” the report states.
The Ministry of Energy maintains that the price monomic, the total paid per kilowatt-hour (kWh) consumed by a large user, for the purchase of energy through contractsfor November was 15,173 dollars per MWh, and for the same period, this price of purchase of energy in the opportunity market it was US$ 15,790 per MWh. Globally, the price monomic purchase of energy It stood at US$ 15,390 per MWh.
“He price of purchase of energy produced with mineral coal is greater than that of energy generated with natural gas, due to the reduction that the price of natural gas in international markets”.
