BPC waits on 5% tariff review request
Friday, February 12, 2021
The BPC made the request to the Botswana Energy Regulatory Authority (BERA) last year, together with proposals for another four percent increase in 2022-2023 and yet another four percent in 2023-24. The corporation received a 22% increase in the 2020-2021 financial year which ends on March 31.
“BERA made a recommendation on the 2021-2022 tariff review and this is still going through the approval process,” BERA tariff and pricing manager, Malebogo Bakwena told BusinessWeek on Wednesday. “The process is that we make a recommendation to the Minister and this then goes to Cabinet.”
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