The president of the National Business Council (CONEP), Celso Marranzini; the president of the Herrera Industrial Association, Antonio Espín, and former government officers Arturo Martínez Moya and Leopoldo Espaillat, as well as Arturo Villanueva, vice president of the Association of Hotels and Cardinal Nicolás López Rodríguez when interviewed by the Listín Diario newspaper favored the revision of the contracts signed by the Dominican government with the Smith-Enron power plant in 1994-95. Marranzini said that administrator Amilcar Romero signed the contract at the end of the last government period of Balaguer. Marranzini said that at that time the administrators signed everything that was sent down from the National Palace. The contract has been criticized because it authorized these to charge per installed capacity, not power supplied. Furthermore, Martínez Moya said that the government needs to revise contracts signed with generators, especially during the Balaguer administration, because it is not possible that the country continues paying US$0.16 per kilowatt when in Miami the kilowatt costs US$0.09 and in Central America US$0.10. He stressed that the idea behind capitalization of the power sector was that the productive sector would become more competitive.
