The Northern Electricity Distribution Company (NEDCo) in the Republic of Ghana has proposed to the country’s utility regulator, PURC, to either scrap the lifeline tariff or reduce it from 50kwh to 30kwh.
Lifeline customers are households that use, on average, between zero and 50 kWh of electricity per month.
According to NEDCo, lifeline customers constitute about 46 per cent of the company’s total customer population of 1,136,050.
The lifeline customers, according to NEDCo, consume power at Ghp32.6060/kWh which is far below the total of the current approved DSC rate of GHp31.5307/kwh, TSC GHp7.9846/kwh and BGT tariff of GHp33.7957/kwh, which is GHp73.311/kwh.
This means that NEDCO is making losses of GHp 40.705/kwh for power sold to lifeline customers.
Source: https://energynewsafrica.com
