After the balance sheet of the energy sector presented by the Minister of Energy and Mining Andrea Arrobo before the Supervisory Commission of the National Assembly about how the new government welcomed it, the former minister of that state department Fernando Santos Alvite points out the responsibilities of the government from the past. During the Santos period, the rationalization of electricity began.

Last Monday, December 4, Arrobo pointed out before the legislators that during the transition with the previous administration, they received only general information, whose reports did not have technical support, and some statistical data did not have a signature of responsibility. Already on duty, the minister added, she managed to obtain more information and real data that caused a greater conflict at the time of decision-making; especially because of decisions that were applied in an inappropriate and unplanned manner, without relevant technical information that made the situation in the electric power sector difficult, and related to the previous administration.

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Although Santos Alvite did not refer to this specific situation, he pointed out that another government is responsible. He did this in an interview on the networks, where he explained that there are state monopolies on oil, telecommunications and electricity, and that the Constitution obliges the state to provide electricity services and produce production facilities.

“The problem is that during the time of President Rafael Correa, billions were spent and very bad plants were built. He built the famous Coca Codo Sinclair, which is the largest in the country, (but) it has 71,000 cracks and instead of 1,500 megawatts it produces a maximum of 1,100 or 1,200 megawatts because there is no water. There is a factory, Toachi Pilatón, which is twelve years late, in Termo Machala they bought equipment to double the capacity and rot in the sand,” said the former energy minister.

Santos recognized that “the state also ran out of money, the demand was growing, but the supply that was the responsibility of the state did not keep up, it could not, the state no longer has money, it has a chronic deficit, it has to pay the debt and we did not open up to the private sector. “

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The private sector, which for the former minister could be the solution to the country’s energy problem, as he assured that the private sector is the business of electricity production, can take care of “something that the state no longer has the ability to do.”

Meanwhile, Minister Arrobo had contacts with the industrial sector, which, according to officials, has been greatly affected by rationing, but at the same time has large capacities for self-sufficiency, and this will have an incentive for large industrialists to do In the electricity sector comes to reduction in demand.