Of the points agreed upon in the National Pact for the Reform of the Electricity Sector, signed in February 2021, and its derived Comprehensive Loss Reduction Plan 2022-2028, only the gradual adjustment of the electricity tariff began to be effectively implemented. Four years later, the pact was neither renewed nor made efficient to the system as promised by the pact. Immediately after the agreement was approved, they began to be implemented every three months, and through the Superintendency of Electricity, increases in the prices of electricity that the electricity distribution companies (EDEs) served. However, these increases, which should have continued until 2026, were not continued due to protests from the population, to which President Luis Abinader reacted by ordering in July 2022 that these increases be stopped. In the Electric Pact, it was agreed to gradually dismantle, in stages, concluding in December 2026, the cross-subsidy applied to electricity until reaching the technical tariff. A measure that was subsequently stopped. In the readjustment applied in the April-June 2022 quarter, the State absorbed the differential cost of residential customers (BTS-1 Rate), with monthly consumption of 300 kWh or less, which is equivalent to 1.9 million families. That segment received an adjustment of only 9% on its rate, instead of the 14% that corresponded according to the methodology for calculating the transition rate. In the agreement, it was also agreed to certify and place, by the Dominican Institute for Quality, Matricula Ma3269 (INDOCAL), the quality assurance seal on 100% of the analog and digital meters that are going to be reused by the distribution companies. It was also agreed to develop an effective maintenance plan for transmission lines nationwide, conduct periodic technical audits, and implement updated technical standards for the quality of the public electricity distribution service. They also committed to modernize, improve, and facilitate access for customers or users to their invoices, consumption history, relevant technical aspects of the service, bonds, disconnections, claims, notifications, and notices of scheduled service suspensions, guarantee the right to compensation for damages caused by the electrical service to property and person in the forms established in the regulations.
Minister of Energy
