In the 1990s, the National Government decided to carry out a
comprehensive reform of the electricity sector. To this end,
it enacted the Law of January 26th, 1996 (Law 26), which
created the ten-called Regulator of Public Services, an entity in
charge, as its name implies, of regulating the
telecommunications, potable water, and
electricity sectors.
Likewise, one year later, the Government promulgated Law 6 of
February 3rd, 1997, which contained the Regulatory and
Institutional Framework for the Provision of
Public Electricity Services (Law 6). The Law established the
regime under which the activities of generation, transmission,
distribution, and commercialization of electric
energy intended for the provision of a public electricity
service should be governed, as well as the regulatory and
coordinating activities involved in planning the expansion
and integrated operation of the nationally interconnected
system, and its economic regulation and monitoring. In
