Tangier Residents Stage Blackout Protest Against Rising Electricity Prices

A subsidiary of Veolia Maroc, the public service operator in charge since 2002 of the distribution of drinking water and electricity in the Tangier-Tetouan region, is invited, according to Barlamane.com, to review its prices.

For some time now, the bill for households, clients of the company, has increased considerably, and nothing is curbing the risk of electricity costs spiraling out of control.

It is therefore to protest the costs of electricity marketing that the homes of users were plunged into darkness for two hours on Saturday, September 28. They are counting on the intervention of the Amendis operator to review its policy on the supply of electrical energy.

These users demand a general revision of the pricing formulas, which are aggravating the difficulties encountered by vulnerable households and the implementation of levers that would allow them to regulate their consumption in the long term.

This is not the first time the operator has been called upon to improve its services. Indeed, in October 2015, an action like the one on Saturday, September 28 was undertaken to urge Amendis to think about the well-being of its customers and to respond adequately to their requests. According to the same source, the intervention of the authorities is expected to try to defuse the tension.