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Puerto Rico Senate approves Bill 133 capping utility payments at 5% of income

The Senate passed the debt-relief measure on Oct. 27, alongside the PPD's $131.6M rate-hike package.

Yadiel Rosario Quiñones
Grid and Infrastructure Reporter
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The Puerto Rico Senate approved Bill 133, which sets utility payment plans capped at 5% of household income for water and electricity debts. [1] The vote adds a new track to the same fight the chamber's Popular Democratic Party delegation opened the prior Monday, when it filed three measures to offset the approved LUMA Energy rate increase. [2] That package would move $131.6 million from the government Emergency Reserve Fund to the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority. [3] The increase the senators are trying to blunt landed at 5.28 cents per kWh, approved by the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau. That is below the 6.66 cents per kWh LUMA Energy had proposed. [4] Where the reserve-fund transfer attacks the rate, Bill 133 attacks the arrears: it ties what a household must pay on a utility debt to what it earns, at a 5% ceiling. The two measures appear to work on the same customers from different ends.
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  1. The Puerto Rico Senate approved Bill 133 establishing utility payment plans capped at 5% of household income for water and electricity debts. · Periódico La Perla
  2. PPD Senate delegation members introduced three legislative measures on Monday to offset approved electricity rate increases for LUMA Energy customers in Puerto Rico · El Nuevo DíaPuerto Rico
  3. The proposed legislation would transfer $131.6 million from the Puerto Rico government Emergency Reserve Fund to the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority · El Nuevo DíaPuerto Rico
  4. The Puerto Rico Energy Bureau approved an electricity rate increase of 5.28 cents per kWh, down from the 6.66 cents per kWh proposed by LUMA Energy. · NotiCel - La verdad como es - Noticias de Puerto Rico - NOTICEL -Puerto Rico
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