2024-08-14 14:29:38
Minister Diego Pardow called on the company to ensure that there cannot be a third time that they fail to comply with their recovery plan.
He Government I give her a ultimatum from Enel Wednesday night, amid the announcement of the start of the expiration of the concession of the electricity distribution company.
The Minister of Energy, Diego Pardowannounced at a press conference from Senapred that the company must restore electricity supply to at least 20 thousand customers during the day this Thursday.
In this way, he stated that “we have started the process of expiry of the distributor Enel. This process has several stages, its first stage is a requirement that works as a form of ultimatum where conditions of service are imposed which must be fulfilled within a certain period of time.”
“Considering that today we have been presented with the third recovery plan and that the two previous ones were not fulfilled, there cannot be a third time. This plan is going to be segment into 24-hour periods and each of those 24 hours we will monitor through a requirement“, he warned.
Pardow made it clear with this ultimatum that if in the next 24 hours they do not restore electricity to 20 thousand customers, “this procedure will move to its next administrative phase which is the adversarial phase. This is about putting people first and we would hope that this does not happen.”
Enel’s commitment after ultimatum
Undersecretary of the Interior, Manuel Monsalveconfirmed to CNN Chile that after the ultimatum, Enel committed to leaving this Thursday, “with the number of customers without Enel supply having dropped to 50,000 here in this region (Metropolitan). And to finish today, having also decreased that by 20,000 during the course of today.”
He also explained that last night’s announcement “is not to solve today’s problem. Because that does not solve today’s problem. It does not solve the problem of the person who has been without electricity for six days. But countries also have to guarantee society that the laws will be applied.. And that sanctions exist for serious violations in order to apply them as well.”