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10:26 a. M.
Friday 04 September 2020
Books – Muhammad Ghayat:
The Media Center of the Council of Ministers confirmed that the news reported by some media, websites and social media pages about the imposition of fines on citizens whose consumption exceeds the fifth tranche of electricity is unfounded.
The Media Center of the Council of Ministers pointed out, in an investigation report, on Friday, that in contact with the Ministry of Electricity and Renewable Energies, they denied the news, confirming that it is not correct to impose fines on citizens whose consumption exceeds the fifth electricity tranche, explaining that the prepaid meter applies an automatic accounting method. When consumption exceeds a certain segment; Where the meter charges from the beginning after entering the new segment, when moving from one segment to another without imposing fines on consumption.
The prepaid meters contain limits for the segments, and there is also a price for each segment, according to the type of activity that the subscriber has contracted, since the subscriber automatically passes to the segment according to his kilowatt consumption, and if he exceeds the limit of the segment, it goes to the upper segment, indicating that the count will be repeated again. With the start of the new accounting period, while the customer service fee is discounted on the last day of the month according to the last tranche of the subscriber, by an LE for the first tranche, two pounds for the second tranche, 6 pounds for the third. , 11 pounds for the fourth, 15 pounds for the fifth leg and 25 pounds for the sixth leg. And £ 40 for the seventh leg, and customer service fees are not deducted for each segment; Rather, the deduction is made based on the last segment in which the subscriber registered the last day of the month only, this is added to the deduction of the accounting difference for the movement between the segments, and in the case of non-consumption ( the meter is closed), the meter at the end of each month automatically deducts what is known as readable to zero and its value is 9 pounds. Per month in the case of not consuming.
The Media Center called on all media and social media users to investigate the accuracy and objectivity in the publication of news and to contact the competent authorities to make sure before publishing information that is not based on any fact and generate confusion among citizens, and in the case of any technical or commercial query or complaint. For electricity services, call the hotline (121).
