Comments on: Regulators approve 18.6 percent hike in electric rates for CNFL customers https://insidecostarica.com/2015/11/24/regulators-approve-18-6-percent-hike-electric-rates-cnfl-customers/ Costa Rica's Leading English Language News Source Tue, 28 Oct 2025 04:55:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.2 By: Ken Morrishttps://insidecostarica.com/2015/11/24/regulators-approve-18-6-percent-hike-electric-rates-cnfl-customers/#comment-13431 Ken Morris Tue, 24 Nov 2015 20:26:00 +0000 http://insidecostarica.com/?p=20187#comment-13431 Curious: Since regulators decided that various costs (for wind projects, advertising, and fulfilling contractual obligations to employees) shouldn’t be paid for by a rate increase, how do the regulators expect CNFL to pay these costs? Does CNFL have bake sales on the side, or is the assumption that it will borrow money? At least the costs already agreed to for employees don’t sound like the kinds than CNFL is at liberty to cut, so where’s the money going to come from if not from customers?

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