Natural gas and electricity bills began to arrive with significant increases. “But we have not yet reached the full rate, because within two months a family in TDF will end up paying between 50 and 55 thousand pesos for gas,” he said in OUTDOOR FM, Moisés Solorza, former Secretary of Energy. And he commented: “This is an energy tragedy.”
“The truth is that we have already started receiving different utility bills. Among them were natural gas through networks, which after the public hearing that was held, a really serious scenario was foreseen, with regard to the increase in rates, which ultimately, for the listener, the neighbor or the neighbor who listens, takes into consideration and who can consult it clearly on the page of the service provider Camuzzi del Sur and see how the final number that she is paying today increased by 110%. Today I am going to give it with the example of my house, which is a R3 residential house with regular household consumption, in fact with 6% less consumption compared to the previous year, and I paid 6,200 pesos and I received a bill for 16,400. It has potentially multiplied.
That is to say, those 16,000 are going to become 32,000 next month and to that we must add winter consumption, which generally in Tierra del Fuego, in cold areas, has a greater impact,” Solorza began by pointing out.
In an interview on the program Entre Mate y Mate he mentioned that “we started winter and now high consumption begins. To this we must also add the Río Grande Electric Cooperative and the Provincial Energy Directorate have increased 70% of the added value of distribution, which together with the seasonal price of electric energy, which is outlined by the Nation, The truth is that it makes it unpayable for many neighbors, businesses and SMEs that are receiving monumental bills.
And I’ll give you the example of, for example, a little market here in the CGT neighborhood, where I live, has received electricity bills in the order of 35,000 pesos and the last billing amounted to 165,000. And you are waiting for the gas rate, which is really going to be exponential in those same terms.”
“So,” he added, “we are really witnessing, as we have discussed at some point, an energy tragedy that must also be added to the cost of LPG. We are hearing that there have been failed segmentations by the provincial government, the supply of astral gas is not yet guaranteed in some way, which is what the LPG would have to bring from Neuquén or Bahía Blanca, in trucks, and that the province assumes that cost as well. And there is a segmentation underway of those who are not connected to the natural gas network with a decree that is still in force, that has not fallen, so to speak, and that, well, I hope it is taken into consideration, that these families, despite their greater purchasing power, above values, establish that segmentation.”
Solorza detailed in another paragraph that “today in Tierra del Fuego, in a basic basket that is above one million three hundred thousand pesos, no one is rich for having two salaries of those characteristics, much less. It seems to me that there is an issue to review there due to the tranquility plot, the neighbors who use all the services. But the truth is that it is a critical situation, and I dare to say that, in the same way that the city of Ushuaia is calling for an emergency in the commercial sector, it seems to me that it is also time to call for a tariff emergency in the Province, generate tools such as payment plans, beyond the indebtedness proposed by three credit card payments, prohibit the cutting of the electricity supply of the services that the province has, such as the Electric Cooperative, the DPE, carry out payment plans so that people, so that neighbors can continue to have the service with plans appropriate to family income, because we are seeing that there is also a deterioration in workers’ salary income.”
“Therefore, there is an emergency to address, and it seems to me that little is being done profitably. Also the legislative sphere, which could have taken advantage of yesterday’s sessions and brought peace of mind to all families before winter, and unfortunately it did not happen, ”she pointed out.
Finally, he mentioned Decree 70/23: “It is in force, and the rate tables have already been published in a new Public Hearing in ENERGAS, the rates will be updated monthly. Therefore, this 460% enabled in the final cost, we have received 110%. That is to say, now there is a section of 110% more, and then, in the last month, within two months the entire rate will be full, which will take a residential family, let’s say, to 90% of Tierra del Fuego to pay a gas rate between 50,000 and 55,000 pesos per month. “That’s outrageous.”
(IN THE AUDIO, THE FULL INTERVIEW).
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