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Santo Domingo.- Electricity superintendent Francisco Méndez on Sunday said several factors have caused the latest spate of blackouts, which even affected the National Palace, but acknowledged that delays in payments to the power companies are among them.

He said an adequate flow of funds to the power companies must be maintained so they can buy fuel and supply the energy to the population.

“There was a delay in the financial flow which the Hacienda Ministry should’ve provided to the State-owned Power Companies to pay the debt. CDEEE administrator Celso Marranzini has already informed that between 30 and 35 million dollars were received which were distributed equally among the generators,” Méndez said, interviewed by Cristhian Jiménez on ColorVision.

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Written by: Blutarsky This user is banned, 22 Feb 2010 9:23 AM
From: Dominican Republic, No Spin Zone
Pay up you welchers !
Written by: gmiller261, 22 Feb 2010 9:41 AM
From: United States

Dumb Asses....

And that fool LF is in Mexico...

Written by: El_Platano, 22 Feb 2010 10:03 AM
From: United States, Yonkers, NY
Well if people didn't steal the electricity................................
Written by: VeronicaDR, 22 Feb 2010 10:35 AM
From: United States
The power companies should be allowed to single out who gets power and who doesn't a little better. I keep paying more and getting less service. I would love the option of getting off the public grid to be with a company who can provide reliable service and get paid. Some company with the resources to make this happen will hopefully decide to make it reality. Let all the electricity thieves and non payers stay on the current grid and move the people who pay to one where they get what they pay for.
Written by: monterrey1975, 22 Feb 2010 12:21 PM
From: Dominican Republic
Message from a Dominican in Monterrey:

I would say, the Dominican Personal ID should have a record that all person above 18 years old, should pay some cents, pesos or a proportion of what one person consume in Electricity. We need to stop in some way the irresponsibility of our people with no paying what they consumed, people use air conditioner, refrigerator, TV, Radio, well.......please pay or let us establish a system that monitor each person paying their own bill.
Written by: derek, 22 Feb 2010 2:05 PM
From: Dominican Republic
As I have said before, we have six (6) apartments in our complex that have to "steal" because Edenorte is too lazy, or too stupid to send out bills and install meters. Nobody but themselves to blaim
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