Ten Bel Turismo SL will pay the debt that the complex has contracted for the supply of electricity and it will affect the communities that make up this urbanization. The administrator of the company, Ángel Cristóbal, also announced that another objective is to individualize the ownership of the meters by communities in order to avoid reproducing the current problem of supply cut-off due to non-payment, a measure that also affects those who are at the same time. current in the compost of light consumption.
«For us it is a priority restore service, so we are in direct negotiation with Endesa “, explains who also assures that the default is generated” because there is a majority of communities that have a debt that has generated this situation “, although it clarifies that there are others that are compliant.
On December 29, Endesa cut off the power to all Ten-Bel because the company that owns the contract has not paid the consumption for months. Ten hours later, already on December 30, those affected, some 1,500 families (more than 4,000 people), recovered the service through generators that are still in use, although some communities have difficulties to pay their rent and the fuel that is needed to keep them running.
Ángel Cristóbal assures that the effort now is also focused on “solving the issue for the future.” The purpose is «to individualize the accountants by communities in direct contract with Endesa and that the problems affect only those who do not pay. For this, Ten-Bel finds a good disposition in the Industry Council. “We will advance as quickly as we can in this line, assuming the part of the facilities that correspond to us for this individualization.”
Ten-Bel It is made up of 2005 apartments distributed in six communities that are managed as an operating unit, which implies the centralized contracting of essential services such as water, telephone, gas and electricity. At present, all of them are contracted and provided on a one-person basis, except in the case of energy, which the company acquires in registration and distributes from the main transformer to those located in each community for distribution among the neighbors.
The sale of apartments – carried out with the protection of the legislation – gave rise to that, with the exception of Alborada, the communities went from tourist use to residential use, but, by virtue of the Insular Plan for Land Management (PIOT), Ten-Bel continues to be for tourist use. This fact makes it impossible to individualize the electricity meters per apartment –although they have one within the internal network that created the urbanization– for their direct contracting with the supplier (Endesa), which makes it necessary to do so by communities.
The coincidence of this problem with the Christmas dates slows down the administrative management of the measures proposed to end a problem that Ten Bel Turismo assures that “is old.” Cristóbal explains that “so far it has been alleviating, but this time it has caught us all by surprise because we were knowledgeable and we were trying to negotiate with Endesa that it would not happen.”
The administrator of the company, Ángel Cristóbal, expresses his gratitude to the municipal government of Arona “for their collaboration and support from the first moment as well as in the search for a solution: the generators.” Most of them from La Palma.
