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Rates have doubled in the last four years

Pressed by reduction in light

ICE calls up and claims it is to avoid blackouts in the country

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The Chamber of Industry not only showed their opposition to the application of 5.39 percent hike in electricity tariffs raised by the Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE), but requested a reduction in services.

According to Marco Meneses, president of the Chamber of Industries of Costa Rica in the last four years, electricity rates have doubled, due to poor planning of the ICE, to pay high rent costs for emergency plants with high consumption of diesel.

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