NewsWhore
05-29-2012, 01:50 PM
In the Santo Domingo neighborhood of El Manguito, only 30 out of 2000 residents used to pay for their electricity. However, the new pre-payment system has changed the attitude of the people who live between Winston Churchill and Abraham Lincoln avenues. Six hundred families already have the new pay-as-you-go meters and they can receive electricity 24 hours a day. Before this, the barrio only received between four and six hours of electricity a day since nobody paid for it, as reported in Hoy.
In response, the CDEEE and EdeSur decided to launch a social experiment with the pay-as-you-go meters and it is proving a success. In the local corner stores, electricity can be purchased.
Flavio Guillen, 29, said that he was one of the first to install the prepaid service: "Before we never paid, but we never had any electricity. Now we buy the electricity we need and do not depend on other people to read a meter." He spends about US$13 a month on the service. El Manguito was selected by the CDEEE for the experiment because it lost 99% of all the electricity that was sent to the barrio. Now the streets are busy with teams installing the new meters and fixing up the electric power lines in the area.
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In response, the CDEEE and EdeSur decided to launch a social experiment with the pay-as-you-go meters and it is proving a success. In the local corner stores, electricity can be purchased.
Flavio Guillen, 29, said that he was one of the first to install the prepaid service: "Before we never paid, but we never had any electricity. Now we buy the electricity we need and do not depend on other people to read a meter." He spends about US$13 a month on the service. El Manguito was selected by the CDEEE for the experiment because it lost 99% of all the electricity that was sent to the barrio. Now the streets are busy with teams installing the new meters and fixing up the electric power lines in the area.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#8)