December 14, 2016: The Minister of Public Utilities, the Honourable Fitzgerald Hinds, today announced that the Trinidad and Tobago Electricity Commission (T&TEC) has started the process to implement a twenty-five percent rebate to persons whose regular electricity bill is $300 or lower. The rebate was first announced by the Minister of Finance in his budget presentation for 2017, to provide relief on electricity bills for low income households.
This rebate, which relates only to T&TEC’s residential (domestic) Rate A customers, will be applied to bi-monthly billing periods starting from December 1, 2016 and onwards. Customers will therefore see the rebate from February 2017.
Additionally, the rebate applies to the value of the bill only. Therefore if the bill was $280.00, then the rebate would be 0.25 x 280 = $70.00, which will be reflected in the charges.
The following bill components will be considered:
a) The total kWh consumption charge for the bi-monthly period;
b) The bi-monthly customer charge of $6.00;
c) The Value Added Tax of 12.5%
Once the sum of these three components is $300.00 or less, the customer qualifies for the rebate.
The measure represents the latest effort by the government to address the economic and social imbalances in society and improve the quality of life for all.
Customers can visit any of T&TEC’s 14 Customer Service Centre, or its website www.ttec.co.tt, for further information.
Annabelle Brasnell
Corporate Communications Manager