translated from Spanish: New meters: announce Bill so that electric companies assume the cost

The Deputy DC Raúl Soto qualified as an “abusive” situation change of light meters to systems with intelligent devices, which envisages an investment of one billion dollars, which will be not taken by the distributor companies as the service, but by users themselves.
In this regard, it announced that it will present over the next few days a draft law, to make the electricity companies that assume the cost of this modification.
According to the parliamentarian, the situation is “practically an expropriation of the meters to users”, given that the new equipment will be property of the electric company and the payment of this officer as a “lease in perpetuity”.
“This is a very bad practice that needs to be removed, therefore, we believe that we must also change the regulations already existing. Remember that this abusive practice is permitted today by new legislation, law 21.076, approved in January of last year in Congress and that he allowed that there would be a real expropriation of meters to the users, without any compensation or “compensation, in addition, allowed that power that they become owners, they can transfer the cost of these meters to users and companies consumers and that, is obviously something unfair and abusive that we must change as soon as possible”.
Soto called for all political forces “to which we process this legal initiative quickly to prevent such abuses and the Government that joins in a way that we can do justice to all the consumers who today are being affected”.

Original source in Spanish