La ordenación de las energías renovables a la luz de las últimas reformas del sectorespecial consideración a la energía marina u oceánica

Abstract

The new Act of the Electrical sector sets up a complex regulating framework that covers above all the tariff system of premiums by the renewable power producers. The drastic measures enacted by the executive in crisis times try to stop the financial imbalances of a sector that expanded protected by public incentives. But changes threat the viability of an industry that had became leader in the Spanish economy and at the same time they create conflicts related to basic principles of our legal order as competence, free competition, non retroactivity of the unfavourable norms, legal certainty, public interest, etc. From amongst the several renewable power sources that exist, in this work we focus on the regime of "offshore energy" or "ocean energy" checking how normative changes do affect it. In spite of being on a pre-commercial stage of technological development, offshore energy is a renewable source with great prediction that has a positive environmental impact which has made to place hopes in it so as to assure the power supply in the future in a sustainable way. In this work we note that the need to provide renewable oceanic sources with an independent regulation with the aim of foreseeing their development over the course of next decades and as a way to rise the political and social commitment with environment.