NewsWhore
09-05-2008, 05:30 PM
Electrical expert Luis Arthur summarizes several of the problems in the sector today in his column in El Caribe. For days, he has been pinpointing the problems for the newspaper's readers. Today he comments that given the fact that the government electricity sector has no plans, and no plants being installed to meet the present and future demand, the new proposal for a cable to feed power from Colombia is just "coating with sugar for the pill" we have to take. He comments that with half the money, several power plants could be installed, and predicted that President Fernandez would have white hair before the cable came to be.
He also criticizes that the proposed 700Mw of aeolic power is another chimera. He mentions that to approve the installations, sectors in government have been asking for large under the table payments, "a copy of what is happening in the tourism sector." And he says that the incentives law that Congress finally passed does not provide encouragement to investors because of the distortion of making the governmental CDEEE the only entity able to purchase this power, leaving the companies to operate as another power provider, dependent on the CDEEE.
Arthur writes that time, political will and money are needed for the government to stop improvising. "Electricity has its well-defined policies that are known, and there is no room for politics," he writes. He laments: "It is difficult for a deaf man to hear, or more for a blind man to see, but in some way we have to get the message across to this man, who removes the good technicians and confirms the rats, so that he may understand that it is time to listen, that there have to be priorities and without energy we will continue to lose competitiveness and he will lose his political future."
For comments, write to luis@arthur.net
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He also criticizes that the proposed 700Mw of aeolic power is another chimera. He mentions that to approve the installations, sectors in government have been asking for large under the table payments, "a copy of what is happening in the tourism sector." And he says that the incentives law that Congress finally passed does not provide encouragement to investors because of the distortion of making the governmental CDEEE the only entity able to purchase this power, leaving the companies to operate as another power provider, dependent on the CDEEE.
Arthur writes that time, political will and money are needed for the government to stop improvising. "Electricity has its well-defined policies that are known, and there is no room for politics," he writes. He laments: "It is difficult for a deaf man to hear, or more for a blind man to see, but in some way we have to get the message across to this man, who removes the good technicians and confirms the rats, so that he may understand that it is time to listen, that there have to be priorities and without energy we will continue to lose competitiveness and he will lose his political future."
For comments, write to luis@arthur.net
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#5)