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The association of FACUA consumers, which advises and defends consumers against fraud or abuses, has indicated to Newtral that they are not aware of "any increase covert»_. However, they specify that "the risk of rise may be for users with the semi-regulated rate [PVPC] who switch to other rates of the free market." These could reach a percentage similar to that mentioned in the image, according to the association. On the other hand, sources from the electricity sector indicate that for there to be increase of 38%, taxes would have to rise a lot since they represent a large proportion of the bill. Furthermore, estimates are usually made on the wholesale market price. Endesa calculates, for example, that for 2019, the average daily price in the market will be 56.5 euros/MWh, an increase of 5.6 percentage points compared to 2018. As a consumer of electrical energy, there is the possibility of being in the regulated market (called PVPC, Voluntary Price for Small Consumers) or in the free market. Consumers with more than 10 kilowatts (kW) of power can only contract in the free market, where the price is set by contract, due to the evolution of the electricity market or through a fixed price. On the contrary, in the regulated market the price varies every hour depending on of supply and demand and its calculation methodology is regulated by a royal decree. ![\\"hoaxes](\\"\\") Beyond Mocejón: the other hoaxes that attributed crimes to migrants in Barcelona, ​​Tenerife or Getxo We have consulted energy experts and consulted the current legislation to explain how the price of electricity is calculated and how it is displayed on the bill. To analyze how much the price of electricity has fallen or risen, The market operator (OMIE) offers daily production market data, which corresponds to approximately 90% of the total price. It also offers data of the average final price. ### Price evolution From January 1 to June 31, 2019, the average daily market price fell 23.9%. Compared to the month of May, it fell 2.48%. AND Compared to the same month in 2018, it fell 20%. «These are current data, we cannot make an extrapolation until the end of 2019", underlines from the OMIE, the wholesale market that sets the price of most of the electricity bill. The decrease in the price of electricity is mainly explained by the low gas price. «The price of the gas spot market has decreased by 57% compared to the same month last year," indicates the electricity market report from the energy consultancy Grupo Ase. “_Gas is one of the most important electricity generation_”, emphasizes Leo Gago, one of the Ase Group analysts and author of the report. According to it, 26.5% of Electricity generation produced in June is combined cycle. That is, of gas. "To produce electricity, gas is burned," he explains. The rest distributes between nuclear, wind, hydraulic, solar and coal energy. For him next quarter, the forecast is that prices will be similar to those of now. ![\\"The](\\"\\") The old and new hoaxes that resurface with the mpox outbreak ### What does the electricity bill include? What we pay on our bill depends, among other things, on the type of consumer that we are. It is not the same to be an SME, a large company or a domestic consumer. But also, the electricity bill that comes to us house does not only include what we have consumed. What it includes is: 1\. The energy consumed. This price includes the price of energy in the daily production market (as we have indicated, close to 90% of the total), the price of the intraday market and the markets for security services adjustment, the remuneration of the market operator and the system operator (Red Eléctrica de España, REE), the prices of capacity payments and the interruptibility demand management service on the peninsula as well as the marketing margin of the supplying marketer. 2\. Access tolls. These cover the regulated costs of the sector and are set each year by the Government in a ministerial order. They include the remuneration to REE and the distributors for the maintenance of the transportation and distribution, the specific remuneration regime of renewable energy producers, the extra cost of generation in the non-peninsular territories, the annuities of the tariff deficit that are generated in past years and other costs. 3\. Rental of measurement equipment. Refers to the counter when it is not consumer property. 4\. Indirect taxes that levy electricity consumption. include the special tax on electricity, with a rate of 5.1127% and VAT, with a rate of 21%. ### The price of electricity has increased since 2016 In the following graph, we can see the evolution of the average final price from 2009 to 2018. In the last ten years, the price has increased by 64%, reaching a peak in 2011 and in 2015. But it is especially since 2016 that the price of electrical energy rises. One of the explanations for this increase is the rise in the price of emissions. «In 2016, emissions They cost 3 and now they cost 27", explains Leo Gago. To calculate the price of electricity bills, there is also the simulator of the National Markets and Competition Commission (CNMC). He National Institute of Statistics, in its consumer price index, It also offers data on the price of electricity. Sources * Press Office Ministry for the Ecological Transition * CNMC press office * OMIE press office * Ten things you need to know about your electricity bill * Simulator of the National Markets and Competition Commission * Leo Gago, analyst, Ase group report * Electricity market report, June 2019, Ase group * Sources from the energy sector * FACUA * Hoaxes * Energy * Taxes * This is our work methodology. 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