Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/03/31
By: Huang Ya-chuan and Ko Lin
Taipei, March 31 (CNA) Taiwan’s new electricity rates, which come with an average hike
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of 3 percent, will take effect beginning April 1, according to state-run utility Taiwan Power Co. (Taipower).
From Sunday, electricity rates will be raised by an average of NT$2.6253 (US$0.09) per kilowatt-hour (kWh), Taipower said.
Households that use less than 500 kWh and small businesses that use less than 1,500 kWh per month will not have their electricity rates increased, the company said.
This means the existing 10.55 million households that use less than 500 kWh per month or 740,000 small businesses that use less than 1,500 kWh per month will not be affected, it said. [FULL STORY]
