The precarious electrical situation of Ten-Bel, which has kept 1,400 families lighting with diesel generators since December 30 as a result of a million-dollar debt contracted with the utility company Endesa, has crossed borders and has reached the Belgian media.
Neighbors like Dirk Puype, 65, a resident of La Alborada, acknowledges, in statements to the HLN channel, that he regrets investing his savings in an apartment to spend the winters as a retiree. Fleur Robbrecht, another Belgian citizen whose family has owned an apartment for more than 30 years, explains that the generators that supply electricity to the communities “make a scandalous noise and cost 4,500 euros a week”, so she warns that the interim solution cannot take much longer.
But the days go by and the way out, which does not seem easy, is still not there. Endesa proceeded to cut off the supply on the eve of the end of the year due to a debt of around one and a half million euros contracted by Ten-Bel Turismo SL, the company that owns the holiday complexes (now mostly converted into residential areas), which it centralizes in a single meter the general consumption of electricity and distributes the expense by communities, which, in turn, distribute it among their neighbors.
The owner company announced on January 12 that it would pay the debt and pass it on to the communities that make up the development.
