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ICE seeking electric rate hikes in hearing this month

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November 4th, 2013 (InsideCostaRica.com) The Costa Rican Electricity Institute (ICE) is requesting increases in electric rates as a result of what it describes as increased costs and operating expenses during the 2012-2013 period.

 

ICE is attempting to increase revenues for its generation systems by 8.6%, transmission systems by 13.18%, and distribution systems by 5.56% in order to recover its increased expenses over the last year, and to raise funds to further develop its systems.

 

The Public Ombudsman’s Office (known locally at the Defensoria de los Habitantes) opposes the rate hikes, and is asking the regulatory agency in charge, ARESEP, to consider Costa Ricans’ current economic situation and the outlook for 2014 when considering the request.

 

A decision will be made on the matter on November 29th.

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  • http://alligatorsnroadkill.blogspot.com/ John Dungan

    Yet another example of problems encountered in Costa Rica. Their electric rates are already higher than we pay in the states, and – at least where we lived for three years – the electricity is unstable, nowhere near dependable, and extremely hard on electrical appliances and electronic devices. In the three years we lived near Arenal, I spent more money on repairs and replacements of electrical devices than I had spent in the previous twenty years of living in the U. S.

    • mhogan

      John, but you have to appreciate that it’s renewable energy sources so we can save our world from catastrophic MMCC (man-made climate change). That’s gotta account for something. The “rich” can certainly afford to replace burnt-out appliances willy-nilly because the end justifies the means. Your turn in the U.S. is coming; Costa Rica is just so much further advanced.

      • http://alligatorsnroadkill.blogspot.com/ John Dungan

        Will you listen to yourself? Costa Rica is “just so much further advanced?” Advanced in just what ways? It is much easier to have renewable sources when you only have to provide for a population of a few million, you know. Meanwhile, where the hell do you get the idea that I am some kind rich, or that it was easy to replace appliances and electronics in a place like Costa Rica? Willy-nilly?! I think you totally missed my point.

        • mhogan

          John, chill out. I was being sarcastic!!!
          I think this whole “green romanticism” is crap and time will prove it, I have no doubt. Look at the utube http://www.50to1.net. The only way to make countries understand what they’re doing to the economy for naught is to pass that message around.

          • http://alligatorsnroadkill.blogspot.com/ John Dungan

            Oh, OK, then. I’m so used to people pissin’ all over my opinions that I took it for granted that you were serious.

  • disgusted

    The ICE presidents and vice residents still continue with huge bonuses and expense account not to mention their salary in the millions. Well a few more centavos squeezed out of the Costarricense each day adds up and hurts all of use. My bill has doubled in the last 7 years with out adding anything extra to power. has yours?

    • mhogan

      try tripled!!

  • Joe1047

    My favorite part about ICE is having about 10 people on a job that requires 2, driving Polaris quads which are the most expensive in Costa Rica by a longshot and hand delivering my bill with the largest truck the have burning all kinds of fuel. Nor do they trim the trees near my house which I end up doing so the line does not break and I am without power again.

    • http://alligatorsnroadkill.blogspot.com/ John Dungan

      Not to mention the vast number of vehicles on the road with the ICE logo, with only one or two people per vehicle. True story: A yound Tico, who is an executive with ICE, told me how four separate cars, with four separate drivers, were needed when four different big shots had to attend a meeting at a central location.

  • Ken Morris

    Meanwhile, look what’s happening in CR’s neighbor to the north:

    http://www.nicaraguadispatch.com/news/2013/11/nicaragua-ranks-third-in-region-for-renewable-energy-market/8309?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+nicaraguadispatch%2FhOaf+%28Nicaragua+Dispatch%29

    And we see from another ICR story today that CR is only finally, maybe, sometime in the future going to treat some of the raw sewage it spews into the rivers.

    The country is simply going to have to quit believing its own environmentalist PR and start getting the job done, or become a bloated, bureaucratic backwater.

    • SaseboSam

      or become??? it is now..I had enough after 10 years…tired of getting screwed where ever we went…the wife is a tica and she said enough is enough….you have lot’s of money,go for it,live in a gated community…not my way of living…a backward country

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