Tai-Power has announced that it will implement its annual summer electricity
rates for residential users from June through September.

The average monthly bill is expected to rise to 1,084 N-T during that period.

Summer rates for approximately 15-million residential and small commercial
users will begin June 1 and end on September 30.

While seasonal pricing for around 26,000 high-voltage and extra high-voltage
users begins this Saturday and runs through to October 15.

According state-generator, the average monthly household usage throughout the
year is about 345-kilowatt-hours, while the average monthly domestic usage in
the summer rises to 418-kilowatt-hours - pushing bills up by nearly 70-per
cent.

Tai-Power says higher costs to residential consumers during the summer, are
due largely to increased electricity usage rather than the rate hike ... and
electricity usage accounts for 73-per cent of the increase, while the higher
seasonal rates make up 27-per cent.