The Council of Ministers has agreed this Friday, in its last meeting of 2019, to raise up to 7,98 euros per megawatt/hour rate to the provision that they pay the owners of the nuclear power plants management of nuclear waste and spent fuel to the Empresa Nacional de Residuos (Enresa). The new rate, which shall enter into force from 1 January 2020, representing an increase of 19,28% compared to the current rate, according to have informed sources of the Ministry for the Ecological Transition, amounted to 6,69 euros per MWh. This fee had not been revised since the year 2010 and is an increase of 400 million euros paid by the electric Company, and stems from the agreement to raise the years for the closure and not to raise the payment more than 20%.

This provision, which in total represents an increase of 400 million euros for electricity that exploit nuclear, funding of services of management of spent nuclear fuel and radioactive waste, in the face of the dismantling of the facilities, the decommissioning of facilities, allocations to the municipalities where they are located in these production plants or storage facilities of spent fuel or waste, and taxes accrued in connection with this storage task.

the fee is The result of multiplying the nuclear power is gross generated by each production unit --it acts as a tax base-- by the above-mentioned unit rate and a correction coefficient which depend on the type of reactor and the raw power of each core.

The Law 54/1997 of the Electricity Sector, which regulates the provision of assets, states that the types of assessment items and tax to determine the share of these fees may be revised by the Government, by Royal Decree, on the basis of a memory economic updated financial cost of the corresponding activities referred to in the General Radioactive Waste Plan.

The Government considered that it was necessary to adapt the rate to estimates of future costs developed by Enresa and points out that the new cost is adjusted to the orderly closure and tiered of nuclear power stations Spanish reflected in the draft of the National Integrated Plan for Energy and Climate (Pniec) 2021 - 2030 submitted by Spain to the European Commission.