The Minister of Industry and Commerce Angel Lockward announced that the government reached an agreement with energy distributing companies to compensate these with 30% of the billing cost of low income households. He explained that they have developed a scale of 100, 200 and 350 a month to bill households in low income barrios. He said that with the scheme, barrios such as Los Alcarrizos will suffer less blackouts, and that all efforts would be made so that these do not occur at night for safety reasons. He made the announcement on the Gordo de la Semana TV program, produced by Freddy Beras Goico on Telecentro, Channel 13. The government recently announced that as a result of an agreement it reached with the distributors, it would eliminate the subsidy on the increase of fuel in billing to middle class and affluent neighborhoods and businesses and industries. It also announced it is backing distributor company efforts to bill low income households.
