From the Ministry of Mines and Energy, through its head, Andrés Camacho, it was announced that the National Government reached an agreement with several energy marketers so that electricity rates begin to drop.
According to this agreement, in total there are 6 marketers that will participate in the process and the beneficiaries will be the households in strata 1, 2 and 3. The agreement consists of the marketers applying a reduction in energy rates immediately, while that the Government will begin to assume the so-called “rate option” in the aforementioned strata.
In that sense, Andrés Camacho himself, Minister of Mines and Energy, spoke in La W to explain how this reduction will be reflected in the following Energy service bills.
“President Gustavo Petro’s determination has been to assume the tariff option, which was a debt that Colombian households owed on their energy bills after the pandemic due to decisions of the previous government, as a public debt,” the minister began by explaining. Camacho.
To achieve this, as explained by the head of the mining and energy portfolio, “we are going, in the first phase, to deliver some loans that were already in progress through public banks. These loans have grace periods, so that companies do not have to charge families,” he explained.
On the other hand, he mentioned that “on July 20 we will file a law from the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Mines and Energy so that the debt that the public banks would now have is added to by the State.”
When will the reduction be reflected?
Minister Camacho explained that “starting with the next bill, these reliefs should begin to be reflected, which may vary, depending on the company and the market (if it is in the Caribbean, if it is other companies that are in the coffee region). ), between 4% to 20%. In the Caribbean we would have on average a 10% reduction as a result of assuming this debt, but this goes hand in hand with other measures that we are adopting to transform and adjust the energy generation formula in the country, so this is the beginning of a series of measures to guarantee reductions in the rate.”
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