The Superintendence of Electricity announced higher electric tariffs for residential and commercial clients using more than 200 kiloWatt\/hours. This comes as a result higher fuel prices and the slight increase in the foreign exchange rate, which have generated an accumulated increase of 30% being paid out by the state. According to Listin Diario, the government will continue to subsidize residential consumers of less than 700 kW\/hours. Residential and commercial users consuming from 0 to 200 kW\/hours will be kept with the same tariff which is RD$2.87 per kW\/hour. Clients within the BTS-I (simple residential low tension) tariff within the 201 and 300 kW\/hour range will see an increase of 2.4% compared to last month’s bill. The new cost is RD$4.09 per kW\/hour. The tariff for the 301 to 700 kW\/hour range will increase by 4.31% to RD$6.09 per kW\/hour. Meanwhile, clients consuming more than 700 kW\/hours will receive a 5.77% increase which will place their tariff at RD$7.89 per kW\/hour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Superintendence of Electricity announced higher electric tariffs for residential and commercial clients using more than 200 kiloWatt\/hours. This comes as a result higher fuel prices and the slight increase in the foreign exchange rate, which have generated an accumulated increase of 30% being paid out by the state. According to Listin Diario, the government … <\/p>\n