29/09/2010 (Agence Europe) - On 20 September, the European Commission authorised compensation that Spain intends to grant to electricity generators to meet the costs of fulfilling a public service obligation, namely producing certain volumes of electricity out of indigenous coal. The directive that governs the functioning of the EU electricity market allows member states to put in place such public service obligations, motivated by reasons of security of energy supply, within a limit of 15%...