Explaining the blackouts

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Energy Superintendent Francisco Mendez insists that the blackouts are due to maintenance works. Hoy reports however that other sources indicate that they are part of a government plan to save on fuel costs. These sources say that the government has not been supplying fuel at the required levels. In recent weeks, even sectors with the best bill payment rates, including Bella Vista, El Millon, Julieta and Evaristo Morales among many others, are being blacked out for more than four hours. Other areas of the city are suffering 10-hour blackouts. Contradictorily, when there are power outages in many cases power bills are higher, as many homes rely on their power-guzzling inverters. Furthermore, blackouts mean big supplementary energy bills for diesel-powered back-up generators.

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