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08-06-2008, 02:00 PM
The vice-president of the Dominican Corporation of State-run Electricity Enterprises (CDEEE), Radhames Segura addressed an audience of manufacturers, bankers and religious leaders at the Gran Teatro del Cibao yesterday and asked for their support in his efforts to renegotiate the contracts with the electricity generators. He said that The National Business Council (Conep) efforts to protect five generating companies worked against the interests of thousands of users. He said that there has been talk for quite some time about the need for the contracts with the generators to be revised and in some cases even changed, especially in view of the distortions that are caused by the difference in cost, a result of the original contract negotiations.
This address to such a varied audience came about because there is talk that the electricity sector is being affected "by subjective negatives, such as blackouts, financial deficits, abuses by the distributors, the elimination of the subsidy and the cost of the service", according to Segura. He complained that some of the media make a point of emphasizing the blackouts instead of encouraging people to pay their electricity bills. He added that the current spate of electricity problems are the result of technical issues such as maintenance, rather than financial issues. The CDEEE executive exchanged comments with leaders of the Santiago Chamber of Commerce and Production, the Industrial Association of the North, traders and industrialists from Santiago and the region, the Development Association and municipal authorities.
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This address to such a varied audience came about because there is talk that the electricity sector is being affected "by subjective negatives, such as blackouts, financial deficits, abuses by the distributors, the elimination of the subsidy and the cost of the service", according to Segura. He complained that some of the media make a point of emphasizing the blackouts instead of encouraging people to pay their electricity bills. He added that the current spate of electricity problems are the result of technical issues such as maintenance, rather than financial issues. The CDEEE executive exchanged comments with leaders of the Santiago Chamber of Commerce and Production, the Industrial Association of the North, traders and industrialists from Santiago and the region, the Development Association and municipal authorities.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#6)