AUC vs. DUC
In the combined year 2020-2021, the terminal AUC was -3.8% (or -8.67€2017) lower than the planned DUC. This results from the combination of higher than planned TNSUs (+0.9%) and lower than planned terminal costs in real terms (-2.9%, or -5.7 M€2017).
Terminal service units
The difference between actual and planned TNSUs (+0.9) falls within the ±2% dead band. Hence the resulting additional revenue is kept by the ANSPs.
Terminal costs by entity
Actual real terminal costs are -2.9% (-5.7 M€2017) lower than planned. This is driven by the main ANSP, ENAIRE (-3.3%, or -6.2 M€2017) and the MET service provider (-1.3%, or -0.1 M€2017), whereas NSA cost are higher than planed (+27.6% or +0.5 M€2017).
Terminal costs for the main ANSP at charging zone level
The lower than planned terminal costs in real terms for ENAIRE (-3.3%, or -6.2 M€2017) result from:
- lower staff costs (-2.8%), although the additional information to the terminal reporting tables clarify that “two provisional rulings unfavourable to ENAIRE, as a consequence of claims of control staff, have impacted in 2021 Annual Accounts for ENAIRE, with a total amount of 32.2M€ higher salaries. This mentioned total amount, although included as higher staff expenses in the 2021 ENAIRE Accounts, has not been considered in the costs submitted by ENAIRE pending national Supreme Court final rulings”;
- lower other operating costs (-10.7%), as result of restrictive expenditure policy;
- lower depreciation (-3.1%);
- lower cost of capital (-7.9%), due to lower asset base (-6.5%) and WACC.