Pedro Pierluisi justifies the increase in the invoice of the light

Governor Pedro Pierluisi justifies his increase in the electricity tariff approved by the Puerto Rican Energy Negotiator, saying that it responds to a statement that “the cost of the petroleum barrel”.

“As governor, definitely, I did not agree to support any increase in the bill for lice due to inefficiencies or administrative failures in the Electricity Authority. Well, this is just a surge as a consequence of the cost of the oil barrel being subordinated, similar to what succeeds at the cost of gasoline ”, supported by written declarations.

The first executive report indicates that the Puerto Rican Energy Public Policy Act 17-2019 establishes that our main meta transforms our electricity system in order to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels that can be controlled and sound in the environment. The Transformation of Electricity Authority (AEE) is essential to log this meta. At the same time, Ley 57-2014 created the Puerto Rico Energy Negotiator as an Independent to regulate, supervise and implement the Puerto Rican public energy policy ”.

Pierluisi signaled that the Energy Negotiation, in the form of the Independent, is responsible for evaluating the information that the AEE provides in relation to the reconciliation and purchase of energy every three months.

“During the war, as a result of this reconciliation and the low cost of the combustion, the Negotiated hizo this reconciliation and precisely the light averaged 17 cents the kilowatt hour. The processes of the Negotiation are public, as well as the resolutions and orders that are issued, complementing the transparency that the law requires in these processes ”, he said.

El Energy Negotiations approved the December 31 increase of 0.81 cents per kilowatt-hour (kWh) in the light bill to be implanted during the first quarter of this year (January and March).

Before a customer dwelling, no subsidy from the AEE, a consumption of 800 kWh is already, the impact will be an additional $ 6.52 or 4.7% respect for the last quarter of 2020 (October to December). Van $ 138,77 que pagó entonces, ahora desembolsará $ 145,29. The cost of kWh decreased from 17.3 to 18.1 cents.

Una resolution and order from the regulator, from the que El Nuevo Día obtovo copy, dice that alza responds to the reconciliation of the clauses of adjustment by combustible and energy for the period from September to November 2020.

The representative of consumers in the Junta de Gobierno de la AEE, Tomás Torres, valid as the increase responds to the fact that the price of the “bar idolo” oil barrel was transferred to its striped chain in April, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Sondeverbod, respecting the bill of light, argues that “can not be an increase of cantazo”.

The Puerto Rican Senate will discuss in a session this year a legislative medium with which the body will express its response to the increase in the electricity tariff announced by the Energy Negotiator.

The media also applied to the Department of Justice to investigate the possibility of an illegal conduct during the approval of the alza, informs the port of the Mayor of the High Camera, Javier Aponte Dalmau.