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ICE requested up to Aresep

Housing would pay 5.39% more in electricity rates in 2011

A family with a consumption of 250 kWh per month would have to cancel more than 1,126 ¢
For industries, service organizations and businesses, would amount to 2.26% increase

Mercedes Agüero R.  maguero @nacion.com 02/11/2010

Homes that are energy service Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE) would pay a 5.39% increase from February 2011.

The cost per kilowatt for ICE subscriber households would rise from 65 ¢ to 70.11 ¢ for the first 200 kWh of monthly consumption. This picture is for illustrative purposes and it appears the young Monica Vega. File.

For a family with a consumption of 250 kilowatt hours (kWh) per month, this increase would represent ¢ 1,126 in its electric bill.

If the ICE proposal receives the support of the Regulatory Authority for Public Services (Aresep), that household will pay ¢ 20,076 to ¢ 18,950 instead of paying out today.

The Institute has 628,361 subscribers, mainly in rural areas of the country. Of these clients, 87.5% (553,063) are home.

Meanwhile, commercial, industrial and local service providers would have an increase of 2.26%.

Meanwhile, more street lighting would fall by 2.34%

Electric generation rates ICE suffer an increase of 0.26%. They affect the same proportion of sales of electricity to the National Company of Light and Power (CNFL). As for power sales to other distribution companies and cooperatives with the proposed increase is 0.25%.

The transmission service rates would go up 12.70%.

ICE's request was filed on Friday prior to the Regulatory Authority for Public Services, in a letter signed by the chief executive of the institution, Eduardo Doryan.

The regulator must decide whether the hosts to study.

Two scenarios. The Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad presented another scenario in which rates decline more from next February. For households, the rebate would be 4.90%.

However, this proposal does not include costs for purchases of fuel for generation.

The company expects public spending on oil rates not recognized in this year and projected for 2011 are incorporated by Aresep on a methodology that is being studied.

If the Regulatory Authority for Public Services applied the new formula would not actually cut, but a rate increase because it must incorporate the cost of fuel for generation, said Álvaro Barrantes, director of Energy Aresep.
02/11/2010

Homes that are energy service Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE) would pay a 5.39% increase from February 2011.

The cost per kilowatt for ICE subscriber households would rise from 65 ¢ to 70.11 ¢ for the first 200 kWh of monthly consumption.

For a family with a consumption of 250 kilowatt hours (kWh) per month, this increase would represent ¢ 1,126 in its electric bill.

If the ICE proposal receives the support of the Regulatory Authority for Public Services (Aresep), that household will pay ¢ 20,076 to ¢ 18,950 instead of paying out today.

The Institute has 628,361 subscribers, mainly in rural areas of the country. Of these clients, 87.5% (553,063) are home.

Meanwhile, commercial, industrial and local service providers would have an increase of 2.26%.

Meanwhile, more street lighting would fall by 2.34%

Electric generation rates ICE suffer an increase of 0.26%. They affect the same proportion of sales of electricity to the National Company of Light and Power (CNFL). As for power sales to other distribution companies and cooperatives with the proposed increase is 0.25%.

The transmission service rates would go up 12.70%.

ICE's request was filed on Friday prior to the Regulatory Authority for Public Services, in a letter signed by the chief executive of the institution, Eduardo Doryan.

The regulator must decide whether the hosts to study.

Two scenarios. The Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad presented another scenario in which rates decline more from next February. For households, the rebate would be 4.90%.

However, this proposal does not include costs for purchases of fuel for generation.

The company expects public spending on oil rates not recognized in this year and projected for 2011 are incorporated by Aresep on a methodology that is being studied.

If the Regulatory Authority for Public Services applied the new formula would not actually cut, but a rate increase because it must incorporate the cost of fuel for generation, said Álvaro Barrantes, director of Energy Aresep.