Regarding the summit that took place last Friday, January 26, in Cartagena on the issue of high energy rates in the The CaribbeanAndMining Minister Andrés Camacho He took stock of ongoing tasks with governors and mayors of the Coast to address this situation.
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He initially indicated that he could not attend the meeting because of the visit he was making to the Pacific Ocean with other ministers and President Gustavo Petro. However, he pointed out that “several measures need to be taken. It’s a long story in the the Caribbean that is the legacy that remains in the system of Electricity, which implies a structural reform, because a large part of what is happening is that the previous government’s development plan burdened it with the debts of Electric bee accounts of users, that was left by law and that is why we insist on a reform of the structure of the tarifas”, He noted this in a dialogue with Blu Radio.
Therefore, he stated that there must be joint cooperation with the governors and the national government: “We must work together and make the effort to invest in infrastructure so as not to burden users with these losses,” he explained.
Regarding how much budget the government has to make this investment, the minister explained that calculations are being made, “but we have strengthened public enterprises (…). It would be a lie to say that (the problem ofs rates in the Caribbean) is resolved with regulatory measures. “It’s a structural problem.”
He concluded that to face the problem, the strategy of energy communities“building solar communities in the neighborhoods of Barranquilla, Cartagena to ensure that people receive assistance and benefits that enable them reduction in rates”he concluded in statements to the station.
Source: El heraldo
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