The high electricity prices are the result of DISY’s incompetence and abject failure

AKEL replies to the DISY Press Spokesperson

16 February 2024, AKEL C.C. Press Office, Nicosia

While the government of Nikos Christodoulides hasn’t replied in any way to AKEL’s realistic proposals, the DISY press spokesperson seems to have taken on the role of government spokesperson.

Of course, we are aware of DISY’s familiar tactic of shifting responsibilities on others, but try as it might, the results of its administration are reflected in the very expensive electricity bills.

It is easy to attribute the causes of high electricity costs to external factors, which are valid, but all too easy to write off the domestic ones quite simply because too many to bear.

The very high cost of energy is a result of the incompetence and abject failure of the DISY government to introduce natural gas for electricity power generation which they announced 4 times without results.

The €300 million consumers paid in 2023 for pollutants and the €500 million they are expected to pay this year is a result of the criminal incompetence shown by the DISY government.

It is a consequence of the policies undermining the semi-governmental Cyprus Electricity Authority depriving it of resources to develop infrastructures and storage in the renewable energy sector.

It is their policies that have permitted a handful of entrepreneurs in RES generation getting rich at the expense of society.

They are the same people who abandoned the Dhekelia power plant and left our country exposed on energy issues and in danger of having too pay huge fines.

It is DISY’s policies that have left Cyprus at the bottom of the table with regards the penetration of renewable energy sources in the country’s energy mix.

The least DISY has to do is to apologise.

16.02.2024