Electricity charges
Sir, —- In your reply to my letter (February 24) you again miss the point regarding electricity pricing. Noone is suggesting that power charges should be lowered to a point where costs, including new construction, cannot be covered. What is at issue is the level of that new construction.
Electricity consumers are financing an enormous expansion in the power, supply system. However, most of the electricity from these developments will go to the second aluminium smelter. It is obvious that if more power stations are being built at a given time then more money is required from power bills to cover construction costs. Therefore, without the second aluminimum smelter fewer new power stations would be needed, at less cost, meaning power bills could be lower. Mr Birch admitted this when speaking on television last year. — Yours, etc., D. L. JACKSON. February 24, 1981.
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