Garantía de la prestación del servicio público de energía eléctrica y régimen tarifario para materializar los principios de continuidad, ampliación y cobertura

Abstract

The electricity supply lies transcendent towards the movement of humanity and its amount comprises a conclusive element for a large part of economic competitiveness. As a result, electricity perennially enjoys being indispensable in all countries and has been supervised by successive governments. (Alvarado, Lavilla and Muro, 2009). In this sense, there are various elements that intervene to guarantee the passage of electrical energy in the industrial, productive and social spheres. In this way, there is a regulatory scheme at the national level where Colombia sets a position regarding the operating scheme of its electrical system, where it covers aspects that control the commercial, technical and economic activities of those who are involved, service providers , users and government. So, the supply of electricity is a public service, based on notions such as continuity, expansion and coverage, among others. However, Alarcón (2016) mentions that, in a careful analysis of the lack of optimal electricity supply in Colombia, it can be seen that it has affected the scale of the emergency plans designed to avoid a high economic impact. This calls into question the efficiency of the electrical system to guarantee principles such as those mentioned above, being efficiency according to Cossío (2015) not an end in itself considered but rather a way to achieve the purpose of the supervision system. Due to the foregoing, this study is presented in order to establish the efficiency of the public electricity service and materialization of the principles of continuity, expansion and coverage, analyzing the tariff regime under the criteria of the Economic Analysis of Law. For which the following document is initially structured by approaching the problem that includes Justification and Objectives, followed by chapter I, which shows the development of the first objective, detailing the general scheme for the provision of public electricity service, while chapter II , raises the second objective, the verification of the principles of expansion, coverage and continuity of the public electricity service.