{"id":183411,"date":"2022-08-02T07:22:27","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T11:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=183411"},"modified":"2022-08-02T08:04:43","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T12:04:43","slug":"electricity-superintendent-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2022\/08\/02\/electricity-superintendent-resigns\/","title":{"rendered":"Electricity Superintendent resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Rafael-Velazco-Espaillat-N-Digital-1024x617.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-183431\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Rafael-Velazco-Espaillat-N-Digital-1024x617.png 1024w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Rafael-Velazco-Espaillat-N-Digital-300x181.png 300w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Rafael-Velazco-Espaillat-N-Digital-768x462.png 768w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Rafael-Velazco-Espaillat-N-Digital.png 1106w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The electricity superintendent, Rafael Velazco Espaillat resigned his position effective 31 July 2022, amidst strong criticism for the salary increases approved for himself and the main members of the SIE of up to 23%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Velazco has more than 20 years of experience in the electricity sector, is an economist and holds an MBA from the University of Quebec in Montreal, Canada. He was also in the regulation and tariffs department of the distributors Edesur and Edenorte, and had served as director of the commercial department of the Consorcio Energ\u00e9tico Punta Cana Macao (CEPM), among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/actualidad\/nacional\/2022\/07\/31\/renuncia-el-superintendente-de-electricidad\/1981325\">Diario Libre <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/sie.gob.do\/sie-dejara-sin-efecto-tarifa-electrica-anunciada-para-trimestre-julio-septiembre\/\">Superintendency of Electricity <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2022\/07\/27\/high-wages-in-government\/\">DR1 News <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2 August 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The electricity superintendent, Rafael Velazco Espaillat resigned his position effective 31 July 2022, amidst strong criticism for the salary increases approved for himself and the main members of the SIE of up to 23%. Velazco has more than 20 years of experience in the electricity sector, is an economist and holds an MBA from the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2022\/08\/02\/electricity-superintendent-resigns\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[293,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183411"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183411"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183464,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183411\/revisions\/183464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}