According to the comptroller of the National Electricity Regulatory Entity (IN RE), there will be no further increase in electricity bills this year: “Beyond the issues that are planned such as the seasonal increase that occurred a few days ago, in the remainder of the year there will be no type of modification of the rates”.
This announcement was after the organism summon a public hearing for clients of Edenor and Edesur, the comptroller of the IN RE He said it will be for next year’s raises. The distributors ask for increases of up to 300%.
The controller of IN RE pronounced: “We have called a public hearing for the last days of January to begin considering the petitions of the distribution companies such as Edenor and Edesur and the process of analysis after the hearing will continue”.
“The percentage that corresponds to increase will be determined later if that is the conclusion of that hearing,” “Companies are asking for recompositions that go far beyond what has to do with the accumulated inflation of the last 2 years”continued the auditor of the organism.
Requests from electricity distributors
“The first thing we demand of them is that beyond the request they are making, that of course we will evaluate it, is that they show the cash flow chartsthat they always put ahead in a break situation, and that also say how they are going to recompose the investments and that we all have better quality in the provision of services”began the official of the electricity regulator.
And he continued by means of: “The companies state that they have a delay in their rates of between 290% and 300% compared to two years ago, where they were only granted a minimum increase of 8%. It seems to me that you never take what the starting point is, because we come from years that they have also had extraordinary profits”.
Lastly, he emphasized that “It seems to us that it is not only an economic issue but also one of investment. We want to see how the system’s stress situations unfold in the summer and see what investments have been made to prevent events like we had in previous years”
