Khoury Tells 'Angry' Generator Owners: Meters Will Be Installed

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As the government puts into effect a consumer protection measure pressing private generator owners to install electricity meters, caretaker Economy Minister Raed Khoury emphasized on Tuesday that there will be “no backing down on the decision.”

“Private generator owners have no reason to reject the ministry’s decision and install meters” to follow on energy consumption each subscriber is using, said Khoury. “We will not back down on the decision,” he stressed in remarks he made to reporters.

The confrontation seems open-ended between the two parties, and some private generator owners have threatened to cut their services as they refuse to comply with the government measure aiming to regulate the sector.

On Monday, the government started the installation of meters to measure the exact consumption of electricity by subscribers in order to determine the exact prices that should be paid.

The move drew the ire of some private generators owners who argue that prices of services set by the government will affect their profits.

Lebanon has been plagued with electricity rationing for decades amid the government incapability to provide sufficient power.

The Lebanese resort to private operators to compensate for the outage.

SourceNaharnet
Comments 2
Missing thatisit 02 October 2018, 13:21

What a bunch of thieves?
In a 21st century Lebanon, we can not have electricity because the AOUNIS wouldn't allow us to have it. Throw them in jails and get a decent foreign company to build a couple of plants and update the grid so this travesty can stop.

Missing thatisit 02 October 2018, 13:21

What a bunch of thieves?
In a 21st century Lebanon, we can not have electricity because the AOUNIS wouldn't allow us to have it. Throw them in jails and get a decent foreign company to build a couple of plants and update the grid so this travesty can stop.