Cost of Living – Electricity Bills in Costa Rica

[costaricafinca]

What they say and what they do, is two different things.

Read this most [url=http://www.ticotimes.net/More-news/News-Briefs/Business-sector-asks-for-electricity-rate-hikes-for-everyone-but-them_Monday-October-07-2013]recent information[/url]

[Andrew]

[quote=”sweikert925″]I read a recent [url=http://www.ticotimes.net/More-news/News-Briefs/Costa-Rica-regulatory-agency-approves-reduction-in-electricity-rates_Monday-September-23-2013]article in the Tico Times [/url]…… I got the sense that the government approves increases/decreases regularly and that what consumers pay therefore jumps around quite a bit from quarter to quarter. Is that true?[/quote]

Yes! La Autoridad Reguladora de los Servicios Públicos (ARESEP) is the regulatory authority in Costa Rica which regulates the water, sanitation, electricity and fuel supplies in Costa Rica for rates, pricing, quality, quantity and continuity….

So yes! Prices do go up and occasionally then go down but electricity prices have increased dramatically… (I have an article ‘in-the-works’ on that …)

The ARESEP website is at: [url=http://www.aresep.go.cr/]La Autoridad Reguladora de los Servicios Públicos (ARESEP)[/url]

You can use [url=http://translate.google.com/#es/en/]Google Translate here.[/url]

Hope that helps ….

Scott

[bogino]

Am just reading this thread for the first time. Had no idea electric rates had moved that much. Now I feel a whole lot better about my $700 (every 2 months) L.A. Dept. of Water & Power bill. Another reason, I’m guessing, why living in the Atenas/Grecia area is more compelling.

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