Broad will replace 30 thousand watches
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Climate of victory for residents, and São Gonçalo Baixada of energy supplied by Ampla. After analysis of the National Institute of Metrology, Standardization and Industrial Quality (Inmetro), the company will use in 30 thousand homes and small shops the old clocks, traditional energy meters, which began to be replaced by chips (electronic meters) by Broad in 2005.
Initial report by the Inmetro and completed in December last year showed irregularities in most of the electronic meters installed in polyphase systems (over a period of energy). The concessionaire began two months ago in watch repairs and repairs that were damaged, but said that the chips will continue to serve as a parameter for the measurement. Those who were not in condition for use and were replaced by measured Ampla, providing the basis for reading the accounts.
In Saracuruna, hundreds of houses and shops to watch the three-phase meters were replaced by new. "If the account decrease next month, will be a proof that they were wrong," said the driver Monteiro Anderson, 27 years. Rosangela Lopes Pinheiro, 35, expects pay less with the new clock. She had to cut the use of some appliances to save energy. "The account went from R $ 160 to $ 240 for this chip," he said.
Edson Gomes de Oliveira, director of a kindergarten in Saracuruna, is one of the traders whose assessment shall be made by conventional clock. "I went to save less and turn the air-conditioning for the students, preferring the fan. If the account decrease, with the new measurement, I can offer the comfort again, "he said.
Two years ago, the chips have been cause for numerous protests, as the baker Xander Alex Alves, 36 years, resident of Saracuruna in Caxias, showed that error in measuring the energy of their establishment and announced the fact to Ampla. The demonstration caused a wave of indignation and led a series of articles' Shock to the account of light 'in the day, Esso Prize finalist in 2007.
REQUEST FOR Punishment
A Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPI) was established last year in the Legislative Assembly and recommended to the Public Ministry (MP) the punishment of the crime of extortion by Broad against consumers. The MP has not yet ruled on the case. The report of the CPI in the Broad ALERJ basis for the councilors of Duque de Caxias. Yesterday, during a public hearing, which discussed the increase in the accounts after the implantation of chips, was asked to open a local CPI. There will be two more hearings on 18 and 25.
Yesterday, the state Mr Paulo Ramos (PDT), ex-rapporteur of the CPI and responsible for monitoring the case, said residents who asked to meet about 50 thousand accounts of light. "We will analyze and compare all these values. The discrepancies in the accounts of energy still. There are few houses with rooms and with values that reach R $ 400. That is, just ahead the measures taken by the Wide and Aneel (National Electric Energy Agency), regulating the concessionaire, "said Paulo Ramos. He said it summoned the other members that are part of the monitoring committee to go to Inmetro, on April 16 to discuss the matter.
Consumer and paid more
The baker Xander Alex Alves, 36 years of Saracuruna, celebrated yesterday the determination of Inmetro to return to the broad measurement by the clock, even temporarily, replace the meter electronics. In 2007, a report showed the error in measuring Inmetro chip with the Broad, who recorded, according to the document, a consumption of 58.9% above the previous average cost of bread.
"It is a victory for people and a response to everything we have done. When calling the rise out of the ordinary, we were accused of theft of energy. So go with an action for moral damages and the refund of amounts paid more, "said Alex Xander.
Source: This Day Online
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