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How flagging shilling fuels spike in your power bill

Introducing local currency tariffs can disrupt the power sector in the short term. [File, Standard]

The weakening of the shilling over the last year has meant that electricity consumers have to contend with a higher cost of power.

This is as the foreign exchange adjustment component of the power bill goes up.

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