Since Milei's government took office, every day we discover a scam, regulation, or absurd extra cost that only complicates life for all Argentinians.
This week, Federico Sturzenegger is making us freer by dismantling an absurd regulation that required individual tests for each electric meter before installation. This measure, in effect until now, caused an estimated extra cost of 20 dollars per unit, doubling the price of each meter. With approximately 600,000 meters installed annually, the total expense amounted to 12 million dollars per year.
EPEC's extra costs in Córdoba
The Minister of Deregulation's decision was motivated after his communication with the president of the Provincial Energy Company of Córdoba (EPEC). In this conversation, it was discovered that for each meter installed by the company, it is subjected to a test trial. This not only means more work hours for the installation of each meter, but it also doubles the cost of the meter itself.
Thus, to the price of each meter (between 20 and 25 dollars), the extra cost of the test trial must be added. The latter is around 20 dollars, thus doubling the installation costs that will later be paid by the end consumer.
This way, with an average of 600,000 meters installed per year, the company would have found a business deal that provided it with about 12 million dollars annually.
