Shock rating for Ghana in Electrical energy price in Africa
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The rating for most cost-effective electrical energy price on the African continent is out, with Ghana rating ninth and #1 in West Africa.
The listing launched by GlobalPetrolPrices.com, which is understood to trace the retail costs of motor gasoline, electrical energy, and pure gasoline in over 150 nations, additionally noticed Ghana positioned twenty seventh within the World.
With Utility service suppliers calling for an increment in expenses over a interval time, some Ghanaians raged that the present costs are even nonetheless too excessive to afford.
The world common worth of electrical energy is presently $0.133 per kilowatt/hour (kWh) for family customers and $0.124 per kWh for enterprise customers.
In Ghana, residents are paying $0.046 per kilowatt per hour for family and $0.10 per kilowatt per hour for enterprise house owners, equal to GHC 0.37 and GHC 0.80, respectively.
The Electrical energy Firm of Ghana has known as for a 138% enhance in electrical energy expenses for households and companies

North African nation Sudan sit on prime on the planet rating with $0.002 per kilowatt per hour for family and $0.019 per kilowatt per hour for enterprise house owners, adopted by Libya and Zimbabwe.
Beneath is a piece of the Electrical energy price World Rating.
COUNTRY COST($) 100 cents =$1 RANKING
Sudan 0.002 1st
Libya 0.004 2nd
Ethiopia 0.007 third
Zimbabwe 0.013 4th
Angola 0.027 fifth
Zambia 0.033 sixth
Algeria 0.036 seventh
Egypt 0.044 eighth
Ghana 0.046 ninth
Nigeria 0.057 tenth
Tunisia 0.068 eleventh
Cameroon 0.080 twelfth
DRCongo 0.083 thirteenth
Tanzania 0.098 14th
Botswana 0.103 fifteenth
United States 0.159 sixteenth
UnitedKingdom 0.265 seventeenth
China 0.083 18th