{"id":14183,"date":"2015-11-05T13:42:15","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T18:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=14183"},"modified":"2015-11-05T13:42:15","modified_gmt":"2015-11-05T18:42:15","slug":"2-1-million-greeks-face-blackout-as-public-power-company-unpaid-bills-soars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=14183","title":{"rendered":"2.1 Million Greeks Face Blackout As Public Power Company Unpaid Bills Soars"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2015-11-05\/21-million-greeks-face-blackout-public-power-company-unpaid-bills-soars\" target=\"_blank\">2.1 Million Greeks Face Blackout As Public Power Company Unpaid Bills Soars<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Greece\u2019s Public Power Company is angry.\u00a0<\/strong>The amount of unpaid bills by its customers has reached the astronomic EUR 2.5 billion. The PPC is so angry that it plans to cut the power to those without outstanding debts as soon as possible &#8211;\u00a0<strong>a whopping 2.1 million Greeks face darkness<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.keeptalkinggreece.com\/2015\/11\/05\/greeces-ppc-to-cut-power-to-2-1-million-customers-owing-e2-5-billion\/\">KeepTakingGreece reports<\/a>,\u00a0<strong>many Greeks cannot afford to pay the bi-monthly bill mostly because the amount to be paid doubles due to added extra fees like emissions, green-whatever, municipality fees, state tv fees,\u00a0 etc.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"quote_start\">For example bi-monthly electricity consumption is estimated by DEH to be \u20ac52 but i am asked to pay \u20ac100 becausee of the extra charges. The bill includes 13% Value Added Tax but also \u201cinterest\u201d of \u20ac0.44 although I pay per monthly bank order and I am never late. Every 4 months I receive a bill based on my real consumption \u2013 and not just an \u2018estimation\u2019 \u2013 and then I find my self in a state of passing out. Summer months are more expensive due to the use of A\/C, winter months are also expensive due to the use of electric devices like A\/C to heat the apartment. Bills explode to several hundred euros.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>I am not alone in my struggle to pay the bill. But many cannot even afford it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"???: ?? ????? ?? ????? ?? ????? ??? ????? ??? ????????? ?????????!\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newsit.gr\/files\/Image\/2015\/11\/04\/resized\/diakoph_reymatos1_599_355.jpg\" alt=\"???: ?? ????? ?? ????? ?? ????? ??? ????? ??? ????????? ?????????!\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>According to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsit.gr\/oikonomia\/DEI-THa-kovei-to-reyma-se-osoys-den-einai-sto-koinoniko-timologio\/442692\" target=\"_blank\">Greek media\u00a0<\/a>reports, 2.1 million consumers have outstanding debts to the Greek PPC. They are private households, businessmen of small and medium enterprises, merchants, craftsmen.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Now the\u00a0<strong>PPC plans to \u201cturn the power off\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0and leave them in the dark. Not without previous notice, though. It will send consumers a warning and if they won\u2019t comply, they will desperately seek to turn on the lights in the evening, cook for their kids, keep the cheese in the fridge, use their wireless phone, watch tv, heat their homes opr complain about their situations on the internet.<\/p>\n<p>The business debts are reportedly 1.8 billion euro.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2.1 Million Greeks Face Blackout As Public Power Company Unpaid Bills Soars Greece\u2019s Public Power Company is angry.\u00a0The amount of unpaid bills by its customers has reached the astronomic EUR 2.5 billion. The PPC is so angry that it plans to cut the power to those without outstanding debts as soon as possible &#8211;\u00a0a whopping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7],"tags":[10483,6026,1167,642,643],"class_list":["post-14183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-survival-2","tag-black-out","tag-electrical-power","tag-greece","tag-poverty","tag-power"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14184,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14183\/revisions\/14184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}