Territorial Supplement Access Toll Electricity Bill

You will shortly receive information from your electricity supplier about the following correction to be carried out on your electricity bills. It will be along the lines of the following, translated from Spanish.

We will contact you to let you know that, in order to comply with current regulations, in the next electricity bill we will proceed to collect territorial supplements, as established by order TEC / 271/2019, issued by the Ministry for the Ecological Transition.
In the event that this amount exceeds € 2, it will be charged in installments in several invoices, during the next monthly payments (this was on the info from supplier SOM Energia, yours could have decided differently).

Info from the Ministry Order mentioned above.

Electricity access tolls are part of the price of electricity, and are intended to cover different cost items in the electricity sector with regulated remuneration. Among others, they cover the cost of the activities of networks (transport and distribution of electric energy) and production from renewable energy sources, cogeneration and waste with primacy.

In 2013, the regulations contemplated that in the event that these electrical activities were taxed with autonomous taxes, the access toll would include a territorial supplement for consumers of that Autonomous Community, although said supplement was not approved by the government.
In execution of the ruling (1) of the Supreme Court issued as a result of the resources filed by companies that carry out their activity in the electricity sector, the Minister for Ecological Transition has approved a ministerial order with territorial supplements for their Autonomous Community that will be applied in upcoming invoices, on the consumption made in 2013.

Therefore, NAME OF YOUR ENERGY SUPPLIER will proceed to regularize the amounts that result from the application of the value set as a territorial supplement of said Autonomous Community.
This regularization will be applied to your invoice, and will be identified by the concept «Territorial supplement for regional taxes of the Autonomous Community of NAME OF YOUR AUTONOMOUS REGION of the year 2013».

Spanish text that will be on your invoice: Suplemento territorial por tributos autonómicos de la Comunidad Autónoma (name of your region) del año 2013.

(1) Rulings of the Supreme Court regarding contentious-administrative appeals number 102/2013, against Order IET / 221/2013, of February 14, in which it is declared that article 9.1 of said Order is not in accordance with the legal system, and number 379/2013, against Order IET / 1491/2013, of August 1, which declares that article 1 and Annex I of the same were not in accordance with the legal system.

Please note: The information provided is based upon our understanding of current legislation. It is not legal advice but is provided freely to enable you to be properly informed. We recommend that if you are considering taking action, you should seek professional advice.