Data Point

Periodically I like to touch base with reality and provide a data point.

My wife owns a small internet cafe in Davao City. Here is the electricity bill for the 30 day period ending December 15, 2005. It’s on a small commercial rate.

Two things here. First, it gives a snapshot of power rates in Mindanao, fully loaded with taxes. Second, it gives an example of a typical Philippine retail electricity bill - with unbundling implemented.

The total bill is PhP 5,735 for 1,111 kWh consumption. That’s PhP 5.16/kWh. In US Dollars, that’s 9.7 cents/kWh at today’s interbank exchange rate.

View pdf image of the bill.

On this day..

This entry was written by Nick Nichols, posted on Dec 25th at 6pm, filed under philippines and tagged . Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Trackbacks are closed, but you can post a comment.

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