The Namibia Electrical energy Management Board (NECB) has proposed a 7.3% enhance in electrical energy tariffs for the interval 2024/2025. This enhance is in step with the NECB’s cost-reflective tariff methodology, which goals to make sure that electrical energy costs mirror the precise value of offering electrical energy. The rise can be carried out in two phases, with a 3.65% enhance efficient from 1 July 2024, and an extra 3.65% enhance efficient from 1 July 2025.
The NECB has cited a number of elements which have contributed to the necessity for the tariff enhance, together with the rising value of gasoline, the necessity to spend money on new infrastructure, and the necessity to preserve the reliability of the electrical energy provide. The NECB has additionally emphasised that the proposed enhance is decrease than the present price of inflation, and that it’s dedicated to holding electrical energy costs as little as attainable whereas nonetheless guaranteeing the monetary sustainability of the electrical energy sector.
