31 Jan 2007

Increased electricity prices for Samoa consumers

10:42 am on 31 January 2007

Samoa's Electric Power Corporation says it has been has been forced to increase the cost of electricity supply because of a thirty per cent increase in the cost of fuel

The corporation has implemented the new prices through a tariff increase of 15 percent effective from the beginning of February.

The power corporation says the new prices will be reviewed again after six months.