Oh sure, since our water bills are gonna be increasing by a whopping 30 percent (over the next two years, at least), why not hike price up for our electricity as well?
Starting this month, households will be coughing up a bit more for electricity — 6.1 percent more on average, according to Singapore Power (SP). It’ll cost 21.39 cents per kilowatt hour, compared to the 20.20 cents we’ve been paying in the previous quarter. That’s the price we’ll be paying from April to June, by the way, so things might change after that.
What this means is that it’ll be an extra $5.04 on average per month for electricity. Obviously, it differs among the type of households too — families living in one-room flats should expect to pay about an extra $1.58 more, while bungalow dwellers have to fork out $28.48 more on average.
Explaining why they had to increase the tariffs, SP stated that the cost of natural gas for electricity generation went up by 12 percent as compared to the previous quarter.
Ehh, what’s another increase in our monthly household bills — it’s a reality we’ll all just have to accept after the 30 percent price hike on water.
