Electricity prices
Sir, — In your editorial, “Before the lights go out” you suggest that someone has. to pay the cost of production yet you fail to provide this figure. The Minister of Energy says it is 2.5 c, yet Comalco pays 1,4 c and the new smelter will pay 1.7 c. Most consumers pay in excess of 3c per unit. On the West Coast we pay 5c domestic and 11c for the first 3000 units and 7c after that for non-domestic power. I would point out that Professer Van Moeseke’s report, and the report of the Coalition for Open Government point out that what consumers pay is at least 45 per cent above cost of production. The Minister of Energy admitted on a “Close-up” programme that 45 per cent of what consumers pay goes on capital works such as dams and coal-fired power stations and that • without .aluminium smelters people could have cheaper power. — Yours, etc., '* P. G. NEAME, Camerons. August 30, 1980.
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