Defensoría Says ICE Should Compensate
Customers For Delay In Electrical Rate
Reduction
In a letter to Fernando Herrero, the
regulador general, the head of the Defensor
Adjunto de los Habitantes, Daniel Soley, is
asking that the Institution Costarricense de
Electricidad (ICE) should be ordered to
compensate customers the amount equal to the
7% reduction that was stalled for 10 days.
The Autoridad Reguladora de Servicsion
Público (Aresep) headed by Herrero approved
a 7.2% reduction in a electrical rates that
was to have taken effect on September 1.
However, an ICE appeal to the Tribunal
Contencioso Administrativo, stalled the
start of the rate reduction and it wasn't
until Thursday, September 10, that the rate
reduction took effect, after Grace Loaiza
Sánchez rejected the ICE motion the day
earlier.
The Aresep decision was made on August 20
(RRG-10018-2009).
Soley feels adamant that the delay was to
the detriment of customers to the tune of
¢1.15 billion colones from all areas of the
country.
The Defensor added that judge Loaiza's
decision called for a retroactive action.
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