{"id":644586,"date":"2019-05-27T15:49:03","date_gmt":"2019-05-27T15:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div> <div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img width=\"696\" height=\"497\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghana-mma.com\/2019\/06\/25094007-696x497.jpg\"   alt=\"Mthuli Ncube\" title=\"Mthuli Ncube\"\/><\/div><p>The Zimbabwean government on Monday ruled out "},"modified":"2019-05-27T15:49:03","modified_gmt":"2019-05-27T15:49:03","slug":"zimbabwe-rules-out-electricity-tariff-increase-amid-power-shortages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/05\/27\/zimbabwe-rules-out-electricity-tariff-increase-amid-power-shortages\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe rules out electricity tariff increase amid power shortages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"497\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanamma.com\/2019\/06\/25094007-696x497.jpg\"   alt=\"Mthuli Ncube\" title=\"Mthuli Ncube\"\/><\/div>\n<p>The Zimbabwean government on Monday ruled out tariff increases on electricity as the nation faces its worst power shortages in three years.<\/p>\n<p>The government, instead, said it would try to increase power imports and improve power generation efficiency to alleviate the situation.<\/p>\n<p>Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube said this while appearing before parliament\u2019s budget and finance portfolio committee.<\/p>\n<p>A legislator had asked if it was sustainable for the power utility to continue charging the same tariff.<\/p>\n<p>The legislator argued that Zimbabwe\u2019s current power tariffs had become the cheapest in the Southern African region.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny ill-advised tariff increase to bring it in line with regional levels will trigger another round of price increases and inflation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only strategy to deal with this problem is to increase supply through imports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to allocate more resources and import more power to supplement local supplies,\u2019\u2019 Mthuli said.<\/p>\n<p>The power utility has previously applied numerous times for a tariff increase without any success.<\/p>\n<p>The country is facing acute power shortages, due to low generation at main power plant Kariba as well as foreign currency shortages, which have forced the power utility to introduce biting load shedding to manage the situation.<\/p>\n<div style=\"float:none;margin:0px;\">\n<div style=\"color: #3E3E3E\"><i>Get more stories like this on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/todayng\" style=\"color: #ED1C24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a><\/i><\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Zimbabwean government on Monday ruled out tariff increases on electricity as the nation faces its worst power shortages in three years. The government, instead, said it would try to increase power imports and improve power generation efficiency to alleviate the situation. Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube said this while appearing before parliament\u2019s budget and finance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":644588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1291,1292,507,1290,806,567,801],"class_list":["post-644586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","tag-electricity","tag-increase","tag-power","tag-rules","tag-shortages","tag-tariff","tag-zimbabwe"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Zimbabwe rules out electricity tariff increase amid power shortages - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/05\/27\/zimbabwe-rules-out-electricity-tariff-increase-amid-power-shortages\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Zimbabwe rules out electricity tariff increase amid power shortages - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The Zimbabwean government on Monday ruled out tariff increases on electricity as the nation faces its worst power shortages in three years. 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