A family that currently pay ¢ 12,200 in the rate of ¢ 732 light should pay more in the next bill.
The increase reflects an average increase of 6% on Thursday approved the Aresep electricity rates for the Costa Rican Electricity Institute (ICE), which has 628,000 subscribers.
The Regulatory Authority for Public Services (Aresep) resumed yesterday fixing the rates and approve changes in the price of fuel and electricity by the end of the year.
ICE requested 24% increase in electricity rates for homes
Entity also requested 21% more in industrial sector electricity bill
Businessmen oppose rise and attributed to high fuel use
COLLABORATORHULDA P. MIRANDA12:00 AM30/09/2011
The Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE) asked the Aresep 24.18% rise in birth rate for housing in 2012.
However, this increase would apply with respect to prices that prevailed in 2010, said Álvaro Barrantes, energy director of the Public Services Regulatory Authority (Aresep).
The use of bunker allows the thermal plant Garabito, Puntarenas, generate electricity at lower cost than other thermal plants of the ICE.
This is because the bunker is cheaper than diesel.According to today's current prices, a liter of diesel generation costs ¢ 611 and the bunker is quoted at ¢ 379.