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01-24-2007, 04:30 PM
The CDEEE's attempt to collect a new 10% fee from non-regulated electric consumers - those producing their own electricity - has met with widespread rejection by industrialists across the Dominican Republic. The modifications to Law 125-01, the General Law on Electricity, set out to increase the minimum requirement for qualifying for non-regulated status in addition to the new fees. Marranzini, one of the powerful voices coming from the National Council for Business (CONEP) membership and a former president of the private sector group, said that any change in the law should be discussed, read and considered by Congress because of the sweeping effect it would have. Marranzini was joined in his statement by Ernesto Vilalta, a former president of the Herrera Industrial Association. According to Marranzini, the Superintendent of Electricity, Francisco Mendez, was wrong to take up the defense of the proposed modifications. The former CONEP leader said that industrialists have a right to enjoy a 24-hour electricity service, as do all Dominicans, without having to pay an extra 10%.
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