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10-13-2008, 05:50 PM
Radhames Segura, executive vice president of the CDEEE, has admitted what everyone knows - that the recent blackouts are caused by the government being behind in its payments to power generators. Hoy cites a source linked to the private generators, claiming that the government is US$373 million behind. The generation companies shut down to pressure the government to pay. The deficit yesterday totaled 509 megawatts: 1,301 were online while the demand is at 1,810, according to Hoy.
Segura told El Caribe that the government would be making a payment of US$46 million, and said that he expected this would reduce the power outages.
"There are plants out of service for fuel, and naturally that lack of fuel is due to lack of payment. Blackouts are due to the lack of payment with some power generators," Segura said as reported in El Caribe. He said this is due to the expensive oil bill caused by the increases in the price of petroleum that caused the fuel bill in September to almost double in price, from US$119 million to US$192 million. He explained that the relief in the lower prices of oil would be felt in December.
As reported in Listin Diario, he said that the oil bill is up US$400 million compared to last year.
Consumers are big losers when it comes to blackouts. Power bills rarely go down, even after prolonged blackouts. One explanation is that on-and-off consumption brings spikes that are more expensive than a stable service. Another is that inverters storing energy use much more power than just receiving power from the grid. Furthermore, on top of high bills, sometimes even higher than without blackouts, consumers have to operate very costly alternate power generators.
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Segura told El Caribe that the government would be making a payment of US$46 million, and said that he expected this would reduce the power outages.
"There are plants out of service for fuel, and naturally that lack of fuel is due to lack of payment. Blackouts are due to the lack of payment with some power generators," Segura said as reported in El Caribe. He said this is due to the expensive oil bill caused by the increases in the price of petroleum that caused the fuel bill in September to almost double in price, from US$119 million to US$192 million. He explained that the relief in the lower prices of oil would be felt in December.
As reported in Listin Diario, he said that the oil bill is up US$400 million compared to last year.
Consumers are big losers when it comes to blackouts. Power bills rarely go down, even after prolonged blackouts. One explanation is that on-and-off consumption brings spikes that are more expensive than a stable service. Another is that inverters storing energy use much more power than just receiving power from the grid. Furthermore, on top of high bills, sometimes even higher than without blackouts, consumers have to operate very costly alternate power generators.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#4)