For the ENRE controller, “the State should have control of energy companies”

After that, in the middle of the heat wave this past weekend, thousands of users were affected by power outages and that -therefore- the government warned to withdraw the concession from the service to Edesurthe controller of National Energy Regulatory Entity (IN D), Walter MartelloI consider that “The state should have control of energy companies”.

The official argued that “State intervention in these companies must be increasingly strong”. This Monday, Martello announced on its social networks that it had begun and instructed the ENRE domains “to prepare a performance report on the Edesur company in order to assess its repeated shortcomings and behaviors towards users, and the corresponding evaluation actions to follow”, and that he notified “an injunction to the company to restore service to all users who have suffered cuts for 12 hours or more”.

“We are going to analyze the Edesur concession because We come from a chronic system of corporate infractionsthat we have suffered it in the last few days because of the heat wave, which is not an excuse because it was foreseen in all the meteorological analyses, ”said Inspector ENRE in statements to Discovery and pointed the finger at him “so-called contingency plan” company “which was clearly insufficient.

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“There were peaks of 180,000 users without service”, he pointed to last weekend’s cuts. Martello also pointed out “the argument they make about rates is not consistent with reality”: “When they had 2,700% rate increases, they had similar investments.” “If, as they say, for so many years they worked at a loss, Why didn’t they use the contract clause to get out of the deal? This means that then the energy distribution activity in the AMBA was not so deficient. With the losses they’re showing that we don’t validate in full terms, it continues to be a business for them,” he continued.

In this context, he recalled that the continuation of the concession contract established over 60 years “He can’t resist this poor quality of service that we have been used to for decades.”

He also called “untimely” ENEL’s announcement that it was “going to sell its stake in Edesur”. “If they gutted the business, they would have a devaluation to sell,” he added.

In this context, Martello believed that at least “The State must have a stake in the board of directors of energy companies”: “We must defend the quality of service, no matter who owns it.”

Since his speech to ENRE, the official recalled that “we have already applied more than 2,000 million pesos in fines” and that “this is the first time that the process of removing the concession has been opened”.

“We cannot naturalize that we can do everything and that nothing is sanctioned, especially with a company that has a monopoly, which has a 60-year contract, which does not make the investments and each time the temperature exceeds 34 degrees we suffer from this type of phenomenon, ”found the government warning. “The state must have control of companies”he pointed out.

Talk to Telam AgencyMartello said “the apology is over” and “it’s time to look at contractual discrepancies.”

“We will submit them to the Ministry of Energy and political authorities so that, based on our report, they determine the actions to be taken which may or may not determine the cause of termination of their contract,” said the official, who argued that “it is clear that their breaches of contract are chronic and serious for the people who suffer from them.

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