US EditionElectricity Rates Are 90.5% Above Average in Urban Areas of the States
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Residential electricity rates in the San Juan-Bayamón-Caguas metropolitan area were 90.5 percent higher than the average for 282 urban areas in the states during the first quarter of the year, according to the Institute of…
By Redacción de Sin Comillas In the first quarter, in the urban area of the Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) of San Juan-Bayamón-Caguas, public services registered a Cost of Life Index (COLI) of 161.0, which is equivalent to a cost 61% higher than the average of the participating jurisdictions.The main factor behind this gap is the residential electricity tariff, whose price was 90.5 % above the average of the urban areas, according to data p…
The residential electricity tariff in the San Juan-Bayamón-Caguas metropolitan area was 90.5 percent higher than the average of 282 urban areas in the United States during the first quarter of this year. This was revealed by the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics on Tuesday, pointing to a "structural distortion in the energy system" of the island. Ronald Hernández Maldonado, manager of statistical projects of the Institute, explained that this …
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