Clients burn electric bills

[NewsWhore]

Residents of Santiago's Libertad neighborhood have burned their electricity bills in a protest against the high fees they are being charged. The protesters said that the local electricity distributor, EdeNorte, was changing their bills. The residents wanted the EdeNorte to remove the digital electric meters in favor of the older analog models. Because of the recent long blackouts in the area, the residents said that increase shown in the bills was impossible. Several of the people interviewed by Hoy reporter Narciso Perez said that their bills had more than doubled since the installation of the new meters. One woman said that her bill went from RD$4,000 to RD$13,000 per month after the new meters were installed. Other barrios in Santiago have been the scene of similar protests against the electricity service.

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