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07-23-2007, 04:30 PM
The theoretical lowering of the required levels of power usage needed to qualify a company for the privileged category of "non-regulated user (of electricity)" has been frozen at 1,400 kw/h for several years now in violation to the law. According to the Electricity Law, it should now be pegged at just 200 kw/h, but the Superintendence of Electricity has refused to enforce the law. The electricity distributors have convinced the Superintendence of Electricity that they could not afford to lose their bigger clients.
Ernesto Vilalta pointed out to Hoy reporters that the competitive situation of many large industries would improve if they are allowed to buy directly from the generators. According to Bernado Castellanos, a civil engineer that worked for the CDEEE for 15 years, if the law were enforced, becoming a non-regulated user would not be very difficult once the technical tariff was established. This tariff is the cost of using the transmission lines and the technical services of the CDEEE and the various distributors, but eliminates the need to build a costly sub-station, a requirement the Superintendence has supported to discourage companies from disconnecting from the distributors. At the present time, non regulated users are connected directly to the high tension power lines and have to build their own sub-station in order to be able to use the electricity.
Revisions to the electricity law presently under study in Congress would legalize the violation of the law.
The high cost of electricity served to industries and large companies in the DR, attributed by studies to political decisions, are one of the main reasons mentioned as to why the DR has not been able to compete with Central American companies.
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Ernesto Vilalta pointed out to Hoy reporters that the competitive situation of many large industries would improve if they are allowed to buy directly from the generators. According to Bernado Castellanos, a civil engineer that worked for the CDEEE for 15 years, if the law were enforced, becoming a non-regulated user would not be very difficult once the technical tariff was established. This tariff is the cost of using the transmission lines and the technical services of the CDEEE and the various distributors, but eliminates the need to build a costly sub-station, a requirement the Superintendence has supported to discourage companies from disconnecting from the distributors. At the present time, non regulated users are connected directly to the high tension power lines and have to build their own sub-station in order to be able to use the electricity.
Revisions to the electricity law presently under study in Congress would legalize the violation of the law.
The high cost of electricity served to industries and large companies in the DR, attributed by studies to political decisions, are one of the main reasons mentioned as to why the DR has not been able to compete with Central American companies.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#6)