US EditionChile’s Energy Chief Falls Over Tariff Math Error — And What It Reveals
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Chile’s Energy Chief Falls Over Tariff Math Error — And What It Reveals
A simple but costly mistake in Chile’s electricity pricing formula toppled the energy minister this week and exposed how fragile trust can be in rule-based utility systems. President Gabriel Boric accepted the resignation of Energy Minister Diego Pardow after regulators found that inflation had been effectively counted twice in recent tariff updates, lifting household power […]
The economist Álvaro García (71) has been a biministro since yesterday. To the portfolio of Economy, which assumed on August 21 in replacement of Nicolás Grau in his move to Hacienda, this Thursday added the Energy, after the abrupt departure of Diego Pardow. After noon, the President of the Republic, Gabriel Boric, who was arriving from his trip in Italy, asked for the resignation of Diego Pardow (45) after the controversy over the error disclo…
Diego Pardow's resignation takes place in the middle of the presidential campaign, intensifying political tension in the ruling party
President Gabriel Boric has struck the table after it was known this Tuesday that because of a miscalculation the Chileans are paying an overprice in their electricity accounts. Amid the citizen unrest, the president has asked for political responsibilities and has asked for his resignation from the Minister of Energy, Diego Pardow. To replace him he has appointed as a biministro the holder of Economy, Álvaro García, who has asked him to solve t…
The Minister of Energy of the government of Gabriel Boric, Diego Pardow, has presented this Thursday his resignation after the scandal that generated an error in the calculation of the rates of electricity, which implied that Chileans would pay overprice on their monthly ballots. His resignation occurs in the midst of the announcement of parliamentarians of the Independent Democratic Union (UDI), of the traditional right, to present a constituti…
The MP asks the Director of the National Consumer Service, Andrés Herrera Troncoso, to propose the legal amendment to protect families and to execute administrative and judicial actions for the restitution and compensation of the amounts unreasonably collected. The Rep., Francesca Muñoz, has sent a formal request to the Director of the National Consumer Service (SERNAC), Andrés Herrera Troncoso, requesting an urgent and decisive intervention in …
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