The sway of service electric in Guayacanes He has become more and more critical. This municipality of San Pedro de Macorís suffers from recurring blackouts between three and nine hours on average, which have become daily since last December, according to residents to Free newspaper during a tour of the area.
Intermittences affect mainly restaurants, Hotels and others shops that offer services on the beach of Guayacanes. Some of these businesses have already had to invest in plants and Investors to turn on their Pumps of water or preserve the commodity They offer their customers.
This is the case of Martín Zamburek, president of the association of small merchants of Guayacanes and owner of two restaurants On the beach, who had to invest around 150,000 pesos in batteries for his Investors and continue paying more than 70,000 pesos in electrical invoices of their businesses.
“This week I had to quote a 16 kilos of continuous use of 550,000 pesos. So here it is said that there is little tax burden for the shops, But it’s the opposite, here is double and even triple taxation, Because if I have to pay the light and I do not receive it, I have to buy plants and spend in Gasoil, how many times am I paying the light? “He analyzed.
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“Light is a disaster”Henry Dinatali, resident in Villa Rosa Apartment, who denounced that the electricity He goes “all day, about five hours and eight hours.” This led him to invest 180,000 pesos in the purchase of a plant. “It’s the quietest I could find,” he said, lamenting the sound.
Small merchants run out of water
However, small merchants lack resources To do these investments. “We have enough commodity And that is a problem Because we are damaged, “said Joselin Zapata, who has a food post inside the vendors in the vendors in Guayacanesbusiness that pays their counters.
Your partner, Bernandina Rosarioregrets the lack of water When this happens, since you cannot turn on the bomb that uses your business. “The light left yesterday at nine in the morning and arrived at half past eight (at night), he left again and arrived at ten (at night). And so on,” he said.
Edeeste Recognize Failures
The East Electricity Distributor Company (Edeeste), he said a Free newspaper that the electrical circuits of Juan Dolio 1 and 2 – which offer the service electric to Guayacanes– They are out of the supply control announced by the Unified Council of the distribution companies (CEED).
This is a blackout plan programmed and transitory in those areas in which 50 % of the electrical losses caused by irregular connections to the service.
“The outputs that have been presented respond to programs of maintenance Correctives that have been carried out in the area, “he explained Edeeste to Free newspaperadding that maintenance have also been given programmed – One of them on January 17 and the last, on February 5 – that are announced to users through social networks.
Even so, the company acknowledged that there have been incidents that have affected the servicelike the fault of a jumper electric Open – a cable that connects two points in a circuit to facilitate the passage of electric current – that affected the area recently.
“The normalization (of the jumper) took Because customers did not report at once. There are breakdowns that are presented that the company does not detect and, if customers do not report it, there is no way to manage and normalize (the service) “said the company.
To this are added interruptions of the service For eight days – between 4 and six hours – as well as Failures transitions – about five minutes.
- Free newspaper He tried to communicate with him president of the Unified Council of the Electricity Distribution Companies (CEED), Celso Marranzini, to know if a plan has been carried out for intervene The area of Guayacanesbut an answer to the closing of this edition had not been obtained.
Not all communities in Guayacanes are regularly connected to the service, which also affects that they suffer from blackouts frequently. Altagracia Echevarría, owner of the black cafeteria in the El Monte sector, in Guayacanes, explained that, although it is “connected” to energy and receives the light, it does not have a counter.
“The accountant has not yet put it, because they have not come here either. They have to fix that, they practically do not provide light, but they have not yet found a solution to that problem,” he explained.
He said he would benefit from the Luz Bonus, but that he no longer has that subsidy.
Belkis Aybar, owner of a grocery store that bears his name, explained that in that community they receive light, but do not pay it, a situation that the authorities have not yet regulated.
“Normally, here (on the mountain) nobody has a light with accountant; the Danilo government subsidized it, so that is why no light is paid, and there is no accountant for this area,” he explained.
