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12-01-2006, 03:00 PM
Electricity Superintendent Francisco Mendez says that Law 125-01, approved in 2001, which obliges the energy distributors to credit users for the hours that they do not have power, was way too ahead of its time and that there has been no real progress in the energy situation. He is quoted in Hoy newspaper as saying that the law was put in place in order for the sector to move forward, but it has in fact taken steps backwards. Mendez also said that the credit program would force the government to invest an added RD$10 or RD$20 million in the sector to keep it sustainable because of all the blackouts. Mendez did however point out that on average, Dominicans are receiving more power in 2006 than they did in 2004. In 2004 Dominicans received 750 kilowatts of energy per month, in 2005 they received 800 kilowatts per month and in 2006 they are receiving 850 kilowatts of energy per month. He also says that the average price of energy has stayed the same, RD$2.85 per kilowatt in 2004 to RD$3.12 per kilowatt in 2006, adding that the average duration of power outages has decreased from 6.3 hours down to 3 hours.
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