The lack of workforce has led to the Ha Noi Electricity Company’s failure to measure electricity usage rate of all individual consumers before its new electricity price level came into effective March 1.
"The company was just able to measure electricity usage of businesses, production units, State agencies and consumers that use their own electricity stations with a capacity of more than 40kWh by the end of February before the new rate came into effective since March 1 as a result of labour shortage," said Hoang Anh, head of the company's competition and propaganda office.
Meanwhile, the remaining 1.7 million individual consumers who have not had their electricity metres read on deadline would pay for their electricity usage basing on both the old and new electricity prices, she said.
"It means that the old electricity price will be applied for their average electricity usage in February and the new price will be applied for their average electricity usage since March 1," she explained.
Since March 1, the household electricity price for the first 50kWh will remain unchanged at 600 VND (0.33 USD) per kWh while the price for the next 50kWh upwards will increase by between 5.6 percent to about 16.1 percent./.
"The company was just able to measure electricity usage of businesses, production units, State agencies and consumers that use their own electricity stations with a capacity of more than 40kWh by the end of February before the new rate came into effective since March 1 as a result of labour shortage," said Hoang Anh, head of the company's competition and propaganda office.
Meanwhile, the remaining 1.7 million individual consumers who have not had their electricity metres read on deadline would pay for their electricity usage basing on both the old and new electricity prices, she said.
"It means that the old electricity price will be applied for their average electricity usage in February and the new price will be applied for their average electricity usage since March 1," she explained.
Since March 1, the household electricity price for the first 50kWh will remain unchanged at 600 VND (0.33 USD) per kWh while the price for the next 50kWh upwards will increase by between 5.6 percent to about 16.1 percent./.
