{"id":6903,"date":"2017-09-26T15:41:59","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T15:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=6903"},"modified":"2017-09-26T15:41:59","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T15:41:59","slug":"burundians-now-satisfied-with-regular-electricity-supply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/burundians-now-satisfied-with-regular-electricity-supply\/","title":{"rendered":"Burundians now satisfied with regular electricity supply"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the launch of a new thermal power plant which produces 30 Megawatts by the company in charge of supplying water and electricity [REGIDESO], the power failure is not observed in different neighborhoods of the capital Bujumbura these days. Consumers say they are satisfied with the current regular supply.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6899\" style=\"width: 446px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6899\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-6899\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Welders-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Welders now perform their daily activities thanks to the regular supply of electricity\" width=\"436\" height=\"327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Welders-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Welders-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Welders.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 436px) 100vw, 436px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6899\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Welders now perform their daily activities thanks to the regular supply of electricity<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe are provided with electricity at least the whole day. There isn\u2019t any selective power cut\u201d, says Benjamin Ndikumana, the owner of welding and carpentry workshops living in Kibenga neighborhood, southern Bujumbura. He says there is an added value thanks to the launch of the new thermal power plant of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/power-price-to-increase-in-burundi\/\" target=\"_blank\">30 Megawatts providing electricity 18 hours per day<\/a>. \u201cThe electricity supply used to only last an hour per day before. But now, we get it until midnight\u201d, he says.<\/p>\n<p>The use of the new thermal power plant goes with the rise in price of electricity. Its generators use between 150 and 160 thousand liters of oil per day and the cost will amount to six billion Burundian francs per month. J\u00e9roboam Nzikobanyanka, Director General of REGIDESO said the price of electricity would increase. \u201cFor houses with low voltage, the cost of 50 kwh will increase from BIF 3400 to BIF 4100 while 150 Kwh that cost BIF 17200 will now cost BIF 33100. For commercial institutions with low voltage, the cost of 100Kwh will increase from BIF 11295 to BIF 23622 while 250 kWh will increase from BIF 37645 to BIF 78838,\u201d detailed Mr Nzikobanyanka.<\/p>\n<p>Even if the price of power has increased, electricity users have not yet increased the price of their products and services. \u201cWe haven\u2019t any choice. We maintain former prices. If we increase them, we will not get any customer\u201d, says a hairdresser met in Bwiza neighborhood in the center of Bujumbura. He also says they have received order from their association refusing them to increase fees for hair cutting. \u201cOur hairdressing salons would be closed if we increased prices\u201d, he says.<\/p>\n<p>Welders, hairdressers, typists, restaurant owners contacted, say the price of electricity should at least be increased provided that the latter be accessible to them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the launch of a new thermal power plant which produces 30 Megawatts by the company in charge of supplying water and electricity [REGIDESO], the power failure is not observed in different neighborhoods of the capital Bujumbura these days. Consumers say they are satisfied with the current regular supply. \u201cWe are provided with electricity at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,670],"tags":[108,524],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6903"}],"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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6904,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6903\/revisions\/6904"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}