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Originally Posted by windeguy
Pichardo, this would indeed be great, but I have a few questions:
Do you have any idea how many months this will take?
Will it involve the power companies disconnecting those currently illegally connected at all levels?
Will the power companies then be required to provide power 24/7 or will they still force us to rely heavily on our own generators and/or battery inverter systems with scheduled daily power outages?
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In the next months major work is going to be done to this end (hopefully)...
Power companies are not in charge of actual billing and compliance of users on the grid, but generating the power to feed the lines only. It's the job of the gov's handled biller to do so. Generators sell to certain private circuits on a contract basis.
The gov is 90 at fault of the disruptions to the grid in a major way. As such, it's the focus of the ongoing debate to remove the subsidy once and for all to the majority.
So far the law has been approved to go after illegal hook-ups but the gov has stopped the pertaining authorities from doing their jobs as required.
Once the card-based subsidy is enforced, the generators will get paid on time... Local energy providers/billers will then be able to enforce the law and provide efficient services to paying clients.
Elections are over, so no more trying to be nice to people that expect to get electricity and not pay for it as always...
The program for the card-based subsidy is in waiting as the gov needs to take control of the refinery in order to be able to discount the energy bills off power generators directly. The gov will use the PetroCaribe accord and ownership of the refinery, in order to be able to sustain the focalized subsidy and payments on time to the companies as well.
Gov owned refinery = Raw energy material = Sold to power generators at a profit = PetroCaribe accord long term financed raw material = Subsidy to large amounts of people in first stage to be diminished each year thereafter = Payments on time to generators = Low incidence of blackouts...
The gov is the largest client of power generators! Strict powers saving measures are going to be enforced in the coming months as well...
The country is looking to add a submarine energy cable from South America to the country in order to provide power redundancy 100%. When the local power is cheaper, the grid will plug to it; when the international power is needed the grid will plug to that one as well.
The international power grid supply envisioned, is in a redundancy and operational capacity only. It's by no means being followed to replace local energy production.
The refinery is not yet in the gov hands... Within 14 months electrical services are going to be normalized as much as possible, given the actual capacity and resources at hand.
Within 3 years, at least 3 Ethanol plants will be up and running, feeding of locally produced raw materials. Gas with 10% Ethanol and E85 for Flex Fuel vehicles will be common in our market...
A new directive to allow only Flex Fuel vehicles importation is being debated now. Also only vehicles of the same year as import date will be allowed into the country... A new emissions bill will look to cleaning up the air in our clogged streets and cities.
There's a task force looking at one of the biggest concerns in our streets and air quality: Motorcycles...
For too long, air and noise pollution have been accepted from these varmints in our country. Existing bikes will need to be "certified" for transit and air/noise pollution articles. The parts brokers will have to part with their aftermarket noise polluting mufflers and tail pipes...
Bikes with less cc than safely needed to operate in transit on major avenues and hwys will be banned and strictly confiscated when breaking the law.
If we're to get a grip on our energy crisis, we must understand that motorcycles are the first stage to deal with it.
The aim of the one year importation ban is due to the need of removing so many old cars in poor shape from the streets. Car will be filtered as of year of actual manufacture, not registration. As you all know cars are sold in a fashion where next year model is sold practically the year before, the DR will only allow the vehicles to be imported as of their compliance with manufactured date.
The first stone was turned when the gov said "Mea Culpa"....
There's much road to be covered to when we can say that our energy problems are solved or about to be stable...
A first for the DR's gov!!!
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