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The Public Utilities Minister speaks to increased rates as he says the Trinidad and Tobago Electricity Commission owes the National Gas Company over four billion dollars and consumers would have to assist in footing the bill .. Minister Marvin Gonzales spoke in Charlotteville on Friday during the commissioning of the fifteen kilowatt solar PV system, for the Charlotteville Methodist Primary School. More in this Elizabeth Williams report.

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00:00The money that TNTEC receives for the generation and the distribution of electricity is sufficient

00:09to keep its operation running.

00:12But here it is, TNTEC gets its gas from NGC.

00:22The price that it pays for the gas is not passed on to you, the consumers.

00:31And that is the reason why today the government owes the NGC over $4 billion.

00:38Minister Gonzalez said consumers will have to pay more.

00:42Because if TNTEC were called upon to pay that gas price of $4 billion, then someone has

00:49to pay for it.

00:51Minister Gonzalez said consumers in this country continue to pay the lowest for water

00:56and electricity.

00:58It should really dawn heavy on our minds that on a yearly basis we spend over $2.1 billion

01:10in the water sector to keep water going.

01:13So whilst yes, we are paying the lowest rates for water, the government has to find the

01:19revenues to ensure that we get water as best as we can, in the same way for electricity.

01:29Chief Secretary Farley Augustine, who was also at the commissioning ceremony, said the

01:33diversification of all energy consumption patterns in a sustainable manner is a step

01:39in the right direction.

01:41And so today, today's commissioning and bestowal ceremony reflects that we are taking a decisive

01:48action as an energy producing state towards embracing clean energy technology.

01:56Elizabeth Williams, TV6 News.

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