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Local group blames Hofschneider for high power rates
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Posted on May 15 2008
TaoTao Tano CNMI president Greg Cruz is blaming Rep. Heinz Hofschneider for killing the 17.6 cents per kWH power rates.
In a letter to Hofschneider, Cruz stated that he recalls the congressman “crying the loudest to repeal Public Law 15-94, [which brought about] the 17.6 cents per kilowatt residential electrical rates last week. Today you are whining because it is not what you expected.”
Hofschneider recently wrote a letter to Commonwealth Utilities Corp. executive director Antonio Muna demanding information on the basis for the new power rates.
He stated that that new rates are too high and wants to know how CUC arrived at them.
Cruz said Hofschneider is now acting as though “he is really trying to do something about the questionable exorbitant rates when it was him and a majority of others who voted for the governor’s unlimited reprogramming authority, including the 50 percent of our CUC security deposits to pay for his fuel cost without doing his homework.
Power rates doubled after the governor signed into law a bill reversing the October 2007 rollback. From paying 17.6 cents per kWh during the past two months, residential customers will now be charged rates ranging from 37.3 cents to 48.4 cents per kWh.
