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The Executive Secretary of the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC), Dr. Ishmael Ackah says government\u2019s contribution to the newly announced tariffs does not amount to a subsidy.<\/p>\n
He made this comment in an interaction on the JoyNews\u2019 PM Express<\/strong> on Monday.<\/p>\n Tariffs for electricity and water are expected to go up by 27.15% and 21.55% respectively by September 1, 2022.<\/p>\n He explained that what the PURC sought to do was to pass on cost that was prudent to the customer.<\/p>\n \u201cSo we go to the utility and we say that when you take your asset, can we still disaggregate the same asset into; the asset you bought yourself, the asset you got from donors and the asset funded by government.<\/p>\n \u201cSo we will take the asset funded by government. Let\u2019s say 40 percent, government is the owner of ECG, Ghana Water, so if government pays for those assets then the return on equity should go to the government,\u201d he stressed. <\/p>\n According to him, the government decided to forego its investment, hence the percentages that were arrived at for the utility tariffs.<\/p>\n When asked if the government\u2019s decision to forego its investment can be referred to as a subsidy, he replied in the negative.<\/p>\n \u201cWell I won\u2019t call it a subsidy,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, the Electricity Company Limited (ECG) has accepted the tariff increase approved by the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC) expected to take effect September 1, 2022.<\/p>\n The Director of External Affairs, Charles Nii Ayiku stated that the power distribution will continue to provide consumers with quality feed and reliable power despite the new tariff being lower than expected.<\/p>\n \u201cYes, as expected by all, of course you will not be excited about what has been given by the PURC but we have accepted it.\u201d<\/p>\n Mr. Ayiku added that \u201cwhere we have any challenges, we will consult with our stakeholders PURC.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Executive Secretary of the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC), Dr. Ishmael Ackah says government\u2019s contribution to the newly announced tariffs does not amount to a subsidy. He made this comment in an interaction on the JoyNews\u2019 PM Express on Monday. Tariffs for electricity and water are expected to go up by 27.15% and 21.55% […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1187199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[9955,566,10251,2001,3891,19053,5564],"class_list":["post-1187197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-amount","tag-boss","tag-contribution","tag-governments","tag-purc","tag-subsidy","tag-tariffs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1187197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1187197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1187197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1187197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}