Ingles: resumen

The electricity market can only function efficiently and transparently if the

Final electricity prices reflect all of the costs associated with your

production and, among them, the cost of environmental and social damages that

provokes

 The electricity market, however, does not currently work like this since the sources

conventional energy sources, that is, those based on fossil fuels and the

uranium, they only incorporate in their final prices the private costs originated in

the generation phase, such as fuel, capital costs and

operation, labor, taxes and insurance.

 The economic cost of the environmental and social impacts that

provoke conventional energies are instead systematically

outsourced, that is, impacted on society as a whole and not on

The electricity consumers themselves.

 The outsourcing of these environmental and social costs not only distorts the

electricity market, by penalizing those energy sources with less impact -

renewable energies– and bonus to the most shocking - those of conventional origin–

It also discourages companies that cause damage to adopt

measures aimed at its avoidance or repair. This situation must therefore be

corrected