{"id":35136,"date":"2013-01-31T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/electricity-companies-told-to-improve\/"},"modified":"2013-01-31T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2013-01-31T01:43:56","slug":"electricity-companies-told-to-improve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2013\/01\/31\/electricity-companies-told-to-improve\/","title":{"rendered":"Electricity companies told to improve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Speaking at a press conference on Tuesday 29 January, the executive vice president of the Public Electricity Companies (CDEEE) said that he was seeking a solution to the blackouts and called on the distributors to collect the payments for electricity and the generators to work more economically, efficiently and safely.<\/p>\n<p> Ruben Jimenez Bichara said that he is looking for a comprehensive solution in the shortest time possible and asked the distributors, EdeSur, EdeEste and EdeNorte, to concentrate on reducing their losses and improving coverage. <\/p>\n<p> He deplored the large number of people with illegal connections to the system without a contract, and users who had a contract but did not pay. He said that the distributors were still having losses of 38 to 40%, which was very high and only 4 to 6 percentage points lower than in 2004.<\/p>\n<p> http:\/\/www.elnacional.com.do\/economia\/2013\/1\/30\/149248\/CDEEE-busca-poner-fin-a-los-apagones<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking at a press conference on Tuesday 29 January, the executive vice president of the Public Electricity Companies (CDEEE) said that he was seeking a solution to the blackouts and called on the distributors to collect the payments for electricity and the generators to work more economically, efficiently and safely. Ruben Jimenez Bichara said that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2013\/01\/31\/electricity-companies-told-to-improve\/\" 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":[232,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35136"}],"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=35136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}