ICE President Says "No Way" To Any
Reimbursement
Not unexpected, the president of the
Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad
(ICE), Pedro Pablo Quirós, said he opposes
the reimbursement of customers for the nine
days ICE delayed the effective date of the
electrical rate reduction.
Quirós made the statement following the news
that the Autoridad Reguladora de los
Servicios Públicos (Aresep) is presenting an
appeal to the Tribunal Contencioso
Administrativo to force ICE to reimburse
¢1.1 billion colones to its customers.
The appeal is being made to the same court
that ICE appealed the increase that was to
have gone into effect on September 1. The
Tribunal ruled last Wedensday against ICE
and ordered the 7.2% rate reduction to take
effect on September 10.
The Aresep and the Defensoría de los
Habitantes (Ombudsman) feels that ICE should
not pocket the nine days of higher rates,
that clearly belongs to its subscribers.
"If these people (the Aresep) want us to
give away electricity, they are wrong", said
Quirós on Tuesday.
The ICE president then alluded to the
possibility of suing the Aresep and that
there is no subsidy for electrical service
in Costa Rica.
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