ICE and CNFL customers will suffer increases this year

August 23rd,2014.

Users of ICE and CNFL suffer an increase in their electricity bills over the coming months, if the pending formalities are met.

The Regulatory Authority for Public Services (Aresep) processes, from July 21, an application for adjustment of 3.7% by ICE. This, despite the fact that the Institute ensure that was not what I asked.

If ARESEP endorse such a request, subscribers of the Costa Rican Electricity Institute (ICE) would pay 3.7% more from next October 10.

It also aims to increase prices its subsidiary, the Compañía Nacional de Fuerza y ​​Luz (CNFL). Victor Solis, general manager of the company, said that the application submitted in September, although still not revealed how much your percentage.

The new rates for 520,000 subscribers of the Company enter into force two months after result supported by the regulatory body.

For three years, the CNFL not receive additional income by higher receipts for your customers. The last request-from 9.2% - introduced in 2012, but was rejected for errors or inconsistencies in the data.

The company justified before the Superintendency of Securities (Sugeval) that the rejection rate increases for many years hit their operational needs and investment.

However, ARESEP said that since 2012, the Company has not approached to present tariff studies, under current regulations, must be delivered to you once a year.

In any case, the request CNFL up in September with the excuse that through a financial crisis drowning in rising debts (now totaling ¢ 279,000 million) and June recorded ¢ 7,000 million in losses.

Source: 'La Nación'