The Minister of Energy and Mining, Andrea Arrobo Peña, announced that for the Christmas and New Year holidays, there will be no electricity cuts in the whole country, that there will be no price increase, and that next week he will meet with his counterpart Colombia will articulate a new purchase of energy, which is currently being paid for 35% more than the regular rate, about $0.60.

Likewise, he indicated that incentives are being analyzed for the industrial sector at an overnight rate of about 0.0245 cents for companies that show they were able to supply. in this last month. The minister said that the power sector is under intensive care.

When appearing before the Supervisory Commission of the National Assembly, Regarding the suspension of the disconnection, he explained that “the Government’s decision is in the planning they carry out and the good management of water supplies in the two reservoirs”.

He explained that when disconnections are suspended, it does not mean that this energy can be used again, because it is not that it will be surplus, and he asked citizens to devote themselves to improving the management of the energy they have and that this will enable the suspension period to be extended. power outages during the approaching rainy season,” he said.

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He revealed that they asked for detailed information from entities that are connected to the sectors and different portfolios that connect the energy sector, that is, the vice-president of the Ministry of Electricity, the vice-president of the Ministry of Hydrocarbons and the vice-president of the Ministry of Mining, but “within these working groups “We receive general documentation, but without technical support on the reality of the three sectors…, reports and statistical data without a signature of responsibility.”

Arrobo also revealed the details of the transition process that was carried out with the officials of the previous government of Guillermo Lasso; and although he assured that “we have never had conflicts in the transition process, there has never been a refusal to consent to an interview by officials”, there was a lack of relevant information during this process.

“We find the electricity sector in intensive care, with energy rationing without planning, without new generation income. As an immediate action, we met with the industrialists of Guayaquil for their contribution to self-production,” he stated.

This, according to the minister, “meant that when we enter, we can get more information as authorities in the sector and take real data that obviously led us to a bigger conflict in decision-making, especially for decisions that were made “untimely”. without planning, without relevant technical information that worsened the situation in the power sector.”