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</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width=452 colSpan=2>EMA to revise electricity tariff formula: Iswaran
By ANGELA TAN
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SINGAPORE - The Energy Market Authority (EMA) is revising the formula for the electricity tariff to make it less volatile and more reflective of prevailing market conditions.
Senior Minister of Trade and Industry, S Iswaran told Parliament on Monday that EMA intends to use the fuel oil price data over a three month period to set the tariff, instead of the current practice of using only one month's price data.
An advantage with the revised formula is that the tariff would be less volatile and more reflective of the prevailing fuel market conditions because more recent price data would be used in the tariff computation.
EMA plans to implement this change for the determination of the tariff in the 3rd quarter of 2009, after consulting key stakeholders and industry players.
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</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width=452 colSpan=2>EMA to revise electricity tariff formula: Iswaran
By ANGELA TAN
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SINGAPORE - The Energy Market Authority (EMA) is revising the formula for the electricity tariff to make it less volatile and more reflective of prevailing market conditions.
Senior Minister of Trade and Industry, S Iswaran told Parliament on Monday that EMA intends to use the fuel oil price data over a three month period to set the tariff, instead of the current practice of using only one month's price data.
An advantage with the revised formula is that the tariff would be less volatile and more reflective of the prevailing fuel market conditions because more recent price data would be used in the tariff computation.
EMA plans to implement this change for the determination of the tariff in the 3rd quarter of 2009, after consulting key stakeholders and industry players.
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