Spanish generators, consumers expect plant closures following sector reform

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London — Conventional generators have joined with Spanish consumer groups to criticize Spain's energy sector reform which the government announced last week, saying that plant closures and soaring utility bills could ensue as the government implements measures to halt a widening deficit between regulated income and expenditure. "Industry will be made effectively homeless by the reforms," the country's cogeneration lobby Acogen said in a note Tuesday while the CEO of the country's largest utility Iberdrola told a conference in London he expects some of the country's plants may have to close due to an increase in taxes on generation.