Even before the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC), completes its ongoing nationwide public hearing on the proposed tariff reviews, the commission says utility service providers won’t get anything close to their huge tariff demands.
The Technical Committee Chairman of PURC, Ishmael Edjekumhene, speaking to Citi News on the sidelines of the Takoradi Public Hearing on the proposed tariff review for 2022-2027, said though PURC is still considering a number of things, the utility firms will not get the huge margins they had proposed.
“We are now beginning the detailed analysis of the proposals to see how prudent their (utilities) cost are to see the extent to which they’ve complied with the guidelines that we provided to them and then ultimately, once we’ve looked at all the numbers provided, we will take a decision. That decision can either go up, stay the same or come down because in 2018 the commission looked at all the numbers and was able to tell Ghanaians or tell the utilities that even though you are asking for an increment we think that the tariff should come down.”
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The Public Utilities Regulatory Commission’s Takoradi Public Hearing on the proposed Tariff Review for 2022-2027 is the third after Accra and Ho in series of nationwide public hearings to enable utilities explain to consumers the rationale for their huge tariffs increment proposals.
Meanwhile, majority of consumers who spoke at the Takoradi hearing shot down the tariff increment proposal.
The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) is asking for an increment in tariffs by 148% while the Ghana Water Company Limited is asking for its tariffs to go up by 343%.
