{"id":6468,"date":"2017-08-01T14:00:07","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T14:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=6468"},"modified":"2017-08-01T14:05:40","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T14:05:40","slug":"energy-ministry-to-decrease-power-cut-by-increasing-electricity-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/energy-ministry-to-decrease-power-cut-by-increasing-electricity-price\/","title":{"rendered":"Energy ministry to decrease power cut by increasing electricity price"},"content":{"rendered":"

This Monday 31 July, the Minister of Energy and Mining, C\u00f4me Manirakiza, presented an assessment of the ministry\u2019s achievements for the first semester of the on-going year. He has promised that electricity will be available soon but says prices will have to increase.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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C\u00f4me Manirakiza, Minister of Energy and Mining: \u201cElectricity will be available soon but says prices will have to increase\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cREGIDESO, a company in charge of power supply, has signed a deal with Interpetrol Company, which will supply diesel power in the country up to 30MW starting from this August. We intend to decrease as much as possible the power outage and supply electricity to all our clients\u201d, said the Energy Minister.<\/p>\n

However, this power cut reduction will be accompanied by payment increase. The council of ministers has recently adopted a bill on the revision of the prices of electricity for an average of 0, 2 dollar per KW.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will soon inform our local clients about the new tariffs according to different categories. This will be applied as soon as we get the 30MW which we think will be available from this August\u201d, says the minister
\nGabriel Rufyiri, President of a local NGO involved in the fight against corruption and embezzlement (OLUCOME) sees the ministry\u2019s decision as a consequence of the aid suspension by the European Union. \u201cThe European Union used to support the sector of electricity up to 25%. It is not now that the European Union has suspended its aid that they are going to handle the issue\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n

He rather advises the ministry to tackle the matter by first addressing its root causes. \u201cThe ministry\u2019s decision to increase the electricity price is the consequence of the economic crisis which the country is going through. They should rather address the real causes to get out of the crisis\u201d.<\/p>\n

No\u00ebl Nkurunziza, chairman of ABUCO, the local association of consumers says the increase in price is not a solution to the power outage at all. Such a decision will worsen the situation which was already bad. \u201cThe population will not be able to afford the high prices. Given the current economic situation, there is a risk that even those who were still surviving by doing small jobs may give up\u201d, says Nkurunziza.<\/p>\n

He advises REGIDESO staff to proceed with an audit and see if there has been no mismanagement in their institution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This Monday 31 July, the Minister of Energy and Mining, C\u00f4me Manirakiza, presented an assessment of the ministry\u2019s achievements for the first semester of the on-going year. He has promised that electricity will be available soon but says prices will have to increase. \u201cREGIDESO, a company in charge of power supply, has signed a deal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,670],"tags":[1157,1156],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6468"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6468"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6472,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6468\/revisions\/6472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}