Argentina Initiatives Tariffs Tender

The Mining Energy and Fuels Commission met during the afternoon in the Arturo Illia room to designate its authorities and subsequently provided treatment to different initiatives related to tariffs subsidies and electricity consumption for warm areas.Regarding the election of authorities the senator for San Juan Jos Uac National and Popular Front will continue to head the commission in the vice presidency will also be the senator for Catamarca Flavio Fama UCR and the appointment of the secretariat was postponed.The beginning of the presentations dealt with the consumption of residential electricity with a differentiated tariff for the warm areas of the Norte Grande Region Northwest and Northeast of Argentina a project of the senator and senator for Catamarca Lucia Corpacci National and Popular Front and Guillermo Andrada National and Popular Front.Andrada began by emphasizing the importance of the Nestor Kirchner gas pipeline we have just experienced a historic event such as launching an emblematic work that without a doubt will modify our energy matrix and thus get to talk about energy sovereignty he said.He also referred to the characteristics of some provinces of the Norte Grande that need electricity both in winter and summer and therefore we believe that it is important to determine the warm areas of our country and that accessibility to electricity is for all families he added.On the subsidy of tariffs Andrada proposed that the Norte Grande rate be 30 sustainable with a fund and in the most vulnerable sectors reach 50.In turn the senator for Entre Ros Edgardo Kueider Federal Unity when exposing his initiative referred to the reduction of rates said the proposal on the warm zones arises because a law of cold zones has also been treated and this claim was exacerbated by the rise in rates. He also advocated the criteria and technical support to determine the zones and the corresponding determination of their jurisdictions this criterion did not prevail last year he clarified.In agreement with Andrada the senator for Chaco Antonio Rodas National and Popular Front who presented his project on a differential tariff regime for the Argentine Norte Grande said an energy opening is opened by the Nstor Kirchner gas pipeline that in turn will bring with it the possibility of other ventures What I believe is that we have to finish getting along with the Executive Branch and with the Economy Ministry regarding subsidies and for this the will of the senators exists he concluded.Another senator who presented his project on differentiated rates for warm areas was Sergio Leavy Salta - Citizen Unity in my province there are all cold and warm areas and this clearly must be established under a scientific criterion of analysis we have also created a trust fund for subsidies for warm areas he said.At the same time Leavy stressed the importance of zones being established not by province but by temperature and with their IRAM standards.Finally he argued that special account should be taken of regions where electricity consumption was higher because they did not have access to gas.Finally said Chaco Senator Victor Zimmermann UCR I want to celebrate debating the issue of the energy matrix in Argentina and emphasize that these are issues related to equity and in the NEA we do not have natural gas.He also expressed that hopefully in the future we will have an energy policy that contains us all and this issue is state policy.The bill by Senator Zimmermann and other senators establishes a differential electric rate for the NEA and creates a trust fund for subsidies for Northeast electric consumption.