{"id":3415,"date":"2021-04-13T13:35:15","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T13:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hostalitecloud.com\/era\/?p=3415"},"modified":"2025-02-03T13:36:38","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T13:36:38","slug":"era-reduces-tariffs-for-the-second-quarter-of-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hostalitecloud.com\/era\/era-reduces-tariffs-for-the-second-quarter-of-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"ERA Reduces Tariffs for the Second Quarter of 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 6<sup>th\u00a0<\/sup>April 2021, the Electricity Regulatory Authority (ERA) announced the new Electricity End &#8211; User (Retail) Tariffs Applicable for Customers served by Umeme Limited during the Second Quarter (April to June) of 2021, with a reduction in the Tariffs for Commercial and Medium Industrial Consumer Categories.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Approved Tariff Schedule, Commercial Consumers will pay UGX 639.8 from UGX 642.4 and Medium Industrial Consumers will pay UGX 556.0 from UGX 560.2.<\/p>\n<p>This is the Second time in a row that the Authority is reducing Tariffs for the Two (2) Consumer Categories, with the aim of supporting the Electricity Consumers to recover from the effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The Tariffs for Domestic Consumers, Large Industrial Consumers, Extra Large Industrial Consumers, and Street Lighting remained the same at UGX. 750.9, UGX 361.0, UGX 301.7 and UGX 370.0, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The Authority determined the Electricity End-User Tariffs for the Second Quarter of 2021 based on changes in the Macro-Economic Factors of the International Price of Fuel, Exchange Rate of the Uganda Shilling against the United States Dollar, Core Consumer Price Index, and Energy Generation Mix.<\/p>\n<p>The Tariffs are Applicable to all Electricity Consumer Bills raised by Umeme Limited, based on Meter Readings and Yaka Purchases taken in the Period\u00a0April to June 2021.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.era.go.ug\/index.php\/tariffs\/tariff-schedules\/630-schedule-of-end-user-tariffs-applicable-for-the-supply-of-electricity-by-umeme-limited-for-the-second-quarter-of-the-year-2021\/download\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Download<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/hostalitecloud.com\/era\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/20210406_SCH_EnduserTariffsQ22021.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Full Tariff Schedule Here<\/a><em>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 6th\u00a0April 2021, the Electricity Regulatory Authority (ERA) announced the new Electricity End &#8211; User (Retail) Tariffs Applicable for Customers served by Umeme Limited during the Second Quarter (April to June) of 2021, with a reduction in the Tariffs for Commercial and Medium Industrial Consumer Categories. According to the Approved Tariff Schedule, Commercial Consumers will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hostalitecloud.com\/era\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3415"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hostalitecloud.com\/era\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hostalitecloud.com\/era\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hostalitecloud.com\/era\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hostalitecloud.com\/era\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hostalitecloud.com\/era\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3417,"href":"https:\/\/hostalitecloud.com\/era\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3415\/revisions\/3417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hostalitecloud.com\/era\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hostalitecloud.com\/era\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hostalitecloud.com\/era\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}