{"id":43813,"date":"2000-11-20T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2000-11-20T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/power-transmission-could-be-privatized\/"},"modified":"2000-11-20T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2000-11-20T01:43:56","slug":"power-transmission-could-be-privatized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2000\/11\/20\/power-transmission-could-be-privatized\/","title":{"rendered":"Power transmission could be privatized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government is contemplating privatizing the transmission of electricity, said President Hip&oacute;lito Mej&iacute;a in Panama, where he attended the Iberoamerican Summit. He said the government does not have the money to invest in revamping this area and is open to private sector participation. &quot;We have had to shut down generating plants due to an excess in production, as several zones in the country do not have adequate transmission lines,&quot; he explained. He mentioned the cases of Santiago and the Northwest in particular.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government is contemplating privatizing the transmission of electricity, said President Hip&oacute;lito Mej&iacute;a in Panama, where he attended the Iberoamerican Summit. He said the government does not have the money to invest in revamping this area and is open to private sector participation. &quot;We have had to shut down generating plants due to an excess &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2000\/11\/20\/power-transmission-could-be-privatized\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43813"}],"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=43813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}