{"id":460053,"date":"2010-03-22T18:52:33","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T22:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sonyinsider.com\/?p=11202"},"modified":"2010-03-22T18:52:33","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T22:52:33","slug":"venezuela-cuts-sony%e2%80%99s-power-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/460053","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela Cuts Sony\u2019s Power Off"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Venezuela\u2019s Electricidad de Caracas CA, which provides electricity to the capital Caracas, will suspend power to 80 businesses<\/a> tomorrow for 24 hours. The businesses, including Sony’s local unit, Sony de Venezuela SA<\/a>, failed to reduce electricity consumption by 20 percent or more as ordered by President Hugo Chavez. He issued the decree to avoid a collapse of the power grid as a severe drought shrinks hydroelectric production that provides more than 66 percent of Venezuela\u2019s electricity, according to a statement published today in the Ultimas Noticias newspaper.<\/p>\n

Those losing supply mostly include restaurants in Caracas along with the Caraballeda Yacht Club, several hotels and the state-run Fondo Unico Social which handles financing for Chavez\u2019s social programs, the statement said.<\/p>\n

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The businesses may lose power for as long as three days or face an indefinite cut if they fail to reduce power consumption in coming weeks, the statement said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have to cut power to a group of nearly 100 high consumers,\u201d Chavez said today on his \u201cAlo Presidente\u201d on state television. \u201cOthers are on a waiting list because they continue to waste electricity. If they continue like this they\u2019ll lose power indefinitely.\u201d<\/p>\n

Danish food maker East Asiatic Co.\u2019s local unit Plumrose Latinoamericana CA, Mexican food maker Grupo Bimbo SAB\u2019s local unit, China\u2019s Huawei Technologies de Venezuela, Canadian oil field servicing company Eveready de Venezuela CA and state oil company Petroleos de Venezuela SA were all recognized for complying with the energy decree, according to the statement.<\/p>\n

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