Order TED/1247/2021 on the variable distribution of collective self-consumption

The Ministry for Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge approved Ministerial Order TED/1247/2021, of November 15, which amends Annex I of Royal Decree 244/2019, of April 5, which regulates the administrative, technical and economic conditions of self-consumption of electricity for the implementation of variable sharing coefficients in collective self-consumption.

The aforementioned Order allows the participants of a collective self-consumption installation to distribute their production in a variable way so that it can be optimized.

This distribution, which may be different for each and every hour of the year, will be flexible and may be modified every four months to better adjust to the consumption patterns of the users. The Ministry states that it is working on “regulatory developments that will allow for the dynamic distribution of collective self-consumption in the near future.”

Until now, the regulations only considered fixed distribution coefficients. As of the publication of the order, the National Commission for Markets and Competition will update the formats of the information exchange files between traders and distributors.

The distribution companies and those in charge of reading meters will have a period of four months to adapt their systems from the day after the National Commission for Markets and Competition approves the necessary adaptations of the file formats for the exchange of information between traders and distributors.

Once the above adaptation period has ended and during the subsequent four-month period, exceptionally, consumers who have fixed annual settlement coefficients and who wish to change their distribution coefficients to implement variable hourly coefficients for the first time under the terms set out in Annex I of Royal Decree 244/2019, of 5 April, will be exempt from the obligation to maintain the modification periodicity of no less than four months of said coefficients set out in Annex I of Royal Decree 244/2019, of 5 April.

Ignacio Puig
Energy Area