The arrival, as announced in DR1 News yesterday, of a tanker of liquid natural gas has allowed AES-Andres to up its production to 362 MW, a big help in the current electricity situation. However, as reported in today?s El Caribe, the solution may be temporary as officials of AES state that the continuation of their operation is contingent upon the government?s disposition to reconcile the pending accounts payable. These amounts owed are largely related to the unpaid subsidies for electricity to certain neighborhoods and to those government facilities that are considered to be uninterruptible. If the money is not forth-coming, says AES, the current supply will force the plants to shut down again and it will not be possible to start them up again until February of 2005. The US$15 million required to obtain the latest shipment of LNG came from internal sources, and this was the cause of the delay in getting the generators back online. AES maintains that the government owes them US$23 million and the last payment received was for US$7 million back in February of 2004. Anibal Mejia, a high-ranking official with AES-Andres, told reporters from El Caribe that the company has confidence in the 10 points presented by President Fernandez in his inauguration speech.