Energy group vice president Radhames Segura yesterday in a press conference with Business Councill president Lisandro Macarrulla.
SANTO DOMINGO. From now on, the Electricity Superintendence will have to grab the tiger by the tail because the Government won’t allocate more than US$900 million to subsidize the country’s energy system for the rest of the year, said Economy Minister yesterday, and advised the citizens that in the future that sector’s authorities will have to take the measures related to that topic.
Temístocles Montas said the electrical subsidy strongly impacts the public finances, for which the Government can only transfer an additional US$250 million to the US$650 million it initially budgeted. “Therefore, if more funds than the 250 million dollars we can assume are required, then the electrical sector is going to have to take the measures required.”
The official didn’t specify what those dispositions will be, but made it clear that it’s neither president Leonel Fernandez, nor the Economic Cabinet which should adopt them. “Those are decisions that have to be assumed by the Electricity Superintendence."
Interviewed in the National Palace, Montas said the blackouts affecting various parts of the country aren’t financial. “You know very well that 650 million dollars were budgeted for the sector. And those 650 million dollars have been religiously disbursed to the sector.”
From: Canada
Either privatize or take responsibility for screwing it up for decades
Written by: BLANCO, 22 Jul 2008 10:39 AM
From: Dominican Republic
I smell price increase in kwh. get ready for the fleece
From: Canada
Up against the wall empty your pockets
From: United States
This "tigre" has no tail to grab .. we have to stop dragging out feet and draw up a comprehensive national energy plan .. then we can drag the tigre by the you-know-what and fix this problem ..
From: United States
You sensed right .. the big "fleece" is just around the corner .. all this talk about "no more blackouts" lays the ground work for the next big rate increase .. it's the best excuse they have to increase rates and still maintain poor service .. we pay more for the same blackouts .. now that's just great ..
Written by: Belial, 22 Jul 2008 1:00 PM
From: United States, Texas
Part of a blackout reflects the hopeless incompetence of the private bourgeosie in the generation and distribution sectors of the energy industry.
The other part reflects an attempt by the bourgeoisie to extort extra money from the state in ever increasing subsidies and from the consumers in ever increasing rates.
Of course, a huge imperialist presence in the energy industry is very dangerous for the DR.
The DR sooner or later must see that it has to exercise its sovereignty over its strategic energy industry or be bossed about like slaves by imperialists and comprador elements in Domincan bourgeoisie.
The imperialists and their compradors want the state completely out of the industry so that they can loot the Dominican people mercilessly.
Compradors are a perfidious and extremely treacherous element in te local bourgeoisie that always take the side of the imperialists, not so much against the workers, but principally against the interests of the local bourgeoisie.
Written by: Belial, 22 Jul 2008 1:17 PM
From: United States, Texas
It's best that the state own and administer, in close cooperation with the proletariat, all sectors of the energy industry.
But if this ideal isn't do-able at a given time, the next best thing is for the patriotic sectors of the Dominican bourgeoisie to take over temporarily.
The worst thing that can befall the industry is that the imperialists and their treacherous compradors, waving CAFTA and other nonsense in people's faces, move in and occupy key positions in the industry, using interruptions of services and back-passing to run their extortion racket against the state and the Dominican people.
The state made an important move against the imperialists and the vile compradors when it took total control of the refinery.
The imperialists, especially Chevron, and the compradors, especially the Santo Domingo's US Chamber of Commerce, are enraged at the state over the refinery. The reactionaries, like vicious dogs, are probing and counter-attacking all over the industry.
From: Canada
The bourgies are the only ones that can run this efficiently when will they ever learn....
Written by: DanielB, 22 Jul 2008 3:37 PM
From: United States
Belial,
Have you ever seen the yankee imperialist tv show "Seinfeld " ?
In one of the episodes, George, another person who claims an all-knowing sense of self-importance, becomes infatuated with the word " Gortex". ( A waterprooof fabric.) He is so impressed by this word that it is the only word that he constantly injects into ANY conversation, whether it fits the topic or not. Much like the word " bourgeoisie". Maybe you could give us all a break and start using GORTEX as your favorite word for a month or so.
From: United States
Use SEMTEX .. it has more CLOUT ..
From: Canada
How many electrical engineers does it take to change a light bulb?................. None. They simply redefine darkness as the industry standard.
From: United States
One engineer to calculate the number of electrons required to activate the bulb .. another one to trace the path of the electrons back from the bulb all the way back to Ede Este .. another one to calculate the sphericity of the bulb .. another one to convert the number of electrons hitting the bulb into lumens .. another one to calculate the number of electrons lost in the process .. it takes a lot of them to get all this done before the bulb can be changed .. so I would hire somebody else to change the bulb ..
From: United States
Do you think you can do all that? Can you count electrons? estimate an electron rest mass? detect neutrons? detect neutrinos? detect phi particles? can you operate a mass spectrometer? can you run a cyclotron? aka an atom smasher .. no? then you will never make it as an electrical engineer .. you will have to change light bulbs all by yourself ..
Written by: BLANCO, 23 Jul 2008 11:50 AM
From: Dominican Republic
cdeee, edenorte,edesur, these are gov't enities. i guess they looked in the mirror and are giving themselves a scolding
Written by: Kedwin, 25 Jul 2008 9:14 AM
From: Dominican Republic
The D.R. keeps investing in never ending expenses and not investments that will pay out in the long run. The D.R. should try to incorporate district heating, solar energy, wind energy, wave energy, biogas, and biodiesel. The D.R. is rich in agriculture and is an island; so it is surrounded by the ocean which enables wind and wave energy to be available all around. The D.R. should try to incoroprate renewable energy. Take for example Denmark, Denmark was an under developed country that was having problems with energy and fuel. Denmark found a way to improve their education system and increase their number of engineers. The D.R. should develop NOW as a renewable energy system that is not just coal/fuel dependent. The way I think D.R. electrical system should approach this is by starting by wind energy and invest in building power lines to incoorporate it into their power grid. Yes, windmills are expense but they do pay out in the long run that just getting more in debt. (yfuusa.
Written by: Kedwin, 25 Jul 2008 9:16 AM
From: Dominican Republic
If the D.R. wants to educate their engineers and invest in the future, they should look into educational programs like Youth for Understanding (yfuusa.org). If you can educate the future engineers with a renewable system already in their way of design and development it will make a difference and hopefully get the D.R. out of their energy crisis.
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The other part reflects an attempt by the bourgeoisie to extort extra money from the state in ever increasing subsidies and from the consumers in ever increasing rates.
Of course, a huge imperialist presence in the energy industry is very dangerous for the DR.
The DR sooner or later must see that it has to exercise its sovereignty over its strategic energy industry or be bossed about like slaves by imperialists and comprador elements in Domincan bourgeoisie.
The imperialists and their compradors want the state completely out of the industry so that they can loot the Dominican people mercilessly.
Compradors are a perfidious and extremely treacherous element in te local bourgeoisie that always take the side of the imperialists, not so much against the workers, but principally against the interests of the local bourgeoisie.
But if this ideal isn't do-able at a given time, the next best thing is for the patriotic sectors of the Dominican bourgeoisie to take over temporarily.
The worst thing that can befall the industry is that the imperialists and their treacherous compradors, waving CAFTA and other nonsense in people's faces, move in and occupy key positions in the industry, using interruptions of services and back-passing to run their extortion racket against the state and the Dominican people.
The state made an important move against the imperialists and the vile compradors when it took total control of the refinery.
The imperialists, especially Chevron, and the compradors, especially the Santo Domingo's US Chamber of Commerce, are enraged at the state over the refinery. The reactionaries, like vicious dogs, are probing and counter-attacking all over the industry.
Have you ever seen the yankee imperialist tv show "Seinfeld " ?
In one of the episodes, George, another person who claims an all-knowing sense of self-importance, becomes infatuated with the word " Gortex". ( A waterprooof fabric.) He is so impressed by this word that it is the only word that he constantly injects into ANY conversation, whether it fits the topic or not. Much like the word " bourgeoisie". Maybe you could give us all a break and start using GORTEX as your favorite word for a month or so.