inspectors of the National Commission for Markets and Competition (CNMC) have entered the headquarters of Endesa and in some of its distribution subsidiaries around the territory to gather internal information about the company before alleged irregularitiesas EL PERIÓDICO has been able to confirm in sources of this company after information from El Confidencial, which also includes Naturgy. From the CNMC They have ruled out making any statement in this regard, while from the other large electric company, iberdrolaThey affirm that they do not have any records.
The researchers of the competition authority have focused on Distribution area of the electric companies, which is in charge of managing the low voltage networks under a monopoly regime. “We are collaborating 100% with them and we look forward to the development of the investigations”, indicate sources of Endesathe main distributor in Catalonia, Aragon, Andalusia, part of Extremadura, the Balearic and Canary Islands. While in the case of naturgy its focus of action is Galicia and part of Castilla-La Mancha, Madrid and Castilla y León.
He reason for the investigation It has not come to light, although the records coincide at a time when complaints are accumulating about the abuse of the position of the distributors by putting obstacles to self-consumption connections, especially collective. Although these types of inspections are a preliminary step in it Investigation process of alleged anti-competitive conduct and they do not prejudge the outcome of the investigation or the culpability of the entity.
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The investigation would begin if, as a result of these records, indications of prohibited practices by the Law for the Defense of Competition and by the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. That’s when the super regulator would proceed to the formal initiation of a sanctioning file. Last December, Competition carried out a “similar” search at the headquarters of the main oil companies — after a complaint by their rivals for an alleged abuse of market position due to the wholesale prices they impose on their fuels and the aggressive reductions to your retail customers– No file has been opened for the moment.
In a report from the Alliance for Self Consumptionwhich integrates the main companies in the sector, cited the distributors as the main barrier to the development of self-consumption due to the delays in the connection of the facilities and the difficulties in the processes of access and connection to the network. From the sector they recognize that the problem centers on the collective self-consumption for having a more complex processing than the individual, as well as a recent regulation and they remember that a few years ago also with the individual self-consumption there were issues with connection times that have been resolved over time.