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Harassed. This is how the inhabitants of the Villa Mar neighborhood say they feel, in the village of La Playa, due to the “high charges” on energy bills that they received in October with the new operator that came to work in the department.
According to the inhabitants, previously they paid monthly bills of less than $ 30 thousand and this month the receipts reached between $ 300 thousand and $ 500 thousand, so they were dissatisfied with those “so high” values, being them from strata 1 and 2.
“The electricity bill has always come like crazy, from the previous company, at first they did a census and they charged according to what one consumed, here we do not have individual counters. What we paid was 18 thousand pesos and suddenly it began to arrive in $ 100,000 or $ 150 thousand, we complained and they told us that those who were paying we were going to be deducted for those who do not pay, ”said Juan Carlos Rodríguez.
Another of the inhabitants stated that “Just” moved to the neighborhood in September in a “new” apartment and lasted 15 days outside so he only consumed energy for half the month and the bill was high.
“I live alone in an apartment, It came to me for $ 158 thousand a single month that I was only 15 days and the rest was alone. This charge seems very exaggerated to me and apart from that there is no meter that records the actual consumption we have made, ”said Rosalba Castañeda.
Another of the problems that they stated to present in the billing, is the collection of an old debt from energy services, since, as indicated in some months, the invoice did not arrive and that is why they did not make the payment.
They indicated that this debt was “supposedly paid off” since the State paid the previous company the amounts owed from the inhabitants of strata 1 and 2, so they would make a “clean slate”, but currently the new company Air-e is charging them the previous balance.
“It is assumed that the state canceled the debt of strata 1 and 2, they are now charging us the entire account that is already settled, it came to me in 3 million pesos. Those bills are because people made debt payments and they did not appear and that is why they stopped paying and all that was added“Said Carlos Almendrales, community leader.
Senator Armando Benedetti rejected these actions and said that “they are being harassed, when you know that they cannot be made to pay. The State paid them and two or three got rich but strata 1 and 2 will not have energy and the problems will worsen, with that action we are facing pirates ”.
Air-e responds
Faced with these complaints, EL HERALDO contacted the Air-e company and This indicated that the definitive solution is to complete the electrical normalization project in the area, since –because of its subnormal condition– the measurement in the neighborhood is generally done with a totalizer.
Faced with this situation, Air-e’s manager, Jhon Jairo Toro, indicated that socialization workshops have been developed in the sector to explain in detail the management model of electrically subnormal neighborhoods.
He added that currently in Villa Mar There are 1,020 groups of families with an individual billing on average of $ 138,000 with consumption of 260 kilowatts / hour / month. However, there is a segment of customers with consumptions that exceed 400 kilowatt hours / month who are commercial users or those with two-level houses or with high consumption appliances, such as air conditioners.
“The total amount of monthly billing andn the neighborhood is of the order of $ 140 million and they only pay about $ 8 million. Likewise, of the 1,020 families only pay the monthly billing only 145 families, ”explained Toro.
On the other hand, it indicated that A situation similar to that of Villa Mar occurs in the departments of Magdalena and La Guajira: “As a company we assume 163 thousand families in a condition of electrical subnormality and we hope to achieve individual measurement with normalization projects with the support of the national government.”
Network work
The energy company Air-e reported that This Tuesday they will carry out maintenance work on Carrera 24B, between 75th and 76th streets in the Carlos Meisel neighborhood from 7:25 in the morning to 6:00 in the afternoon.
In the meantime The company will advance with the days of taking samples of oil in transformers, cwith the objective of guaranteeing its correct operation between 9:10 a.m. and 10:00 a.m. in the 75A race with 87B street.
Similarly, from 10:10 am to 10:45 in the morning on Calle 73 with Vía 40; from 11:00 am to 11:45 in the morning on Via 40 with calle 70; from 1:00 pm to 1:45 pm on Calle 75 with Carrera 58, and from 2:00 pm to 2:25 in the afternoon on Calle 74 with Carrera 42F.
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