{"id":59352,"date":"2021-10-14T10:11:52","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T14:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.carilec.org\/?p=59352"},"modified":"2021-10-14T10:11:52","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T14:11:52","slug":"jps-customers-to-see-an-average-3-68-reduction-on-october-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carilec.org\/jps-customers-to-see-an-average-3-68-reduction-on-october-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"JPS Customers to See an Average 3.68% Reduction on October Bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-17721\" src=\"https:\/\/www.carilec.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/JPSheader-300x92.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carilec.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/JPSheader-300x92.png 300w, https:\/\/carilec.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/JPSheader-600x184.png 600w, https:\/\/carilec.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/JPSheader-1024x314.png 1024w, https:\/\/carilec.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/JPSheader-768x236.png 768w, https:\/\/carilec.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/JPSheader.png 1238w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: center;\">Decrease due to improvements in the FX Rate and fall in Fuel Prices<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">October 13, 2021<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">JPS is pleased to announce that residential customers will see on average, a 3.68% reduction in bills this month which is due to reduced fuel prices and an improvement in the foreign\u00a0exchange rate.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This month, the foreign exchange rate moved down\u00a0from J$152.09 in September to J$147.24 while the fuel charge, moved down from J$23.381 to J$21.967 per kilowatt hour (kWh). The total cost per kWh of electricity, stands at approximately 32 US cents on October bills, or about J$46.84, for residential customers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Therefore, a customer who consistently uses 165 kWh per month, will pay $7,728.73 this month, as against the $8,023.83 that was paid in September, for the same usage \u2013 a saving of $295.11.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Company is also encouraging customers to continue practicing energy efficiency.\u00a0 Customers who need advice on practising energy efficiency may visit the Company\u2019s website at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpsco.com\/energy-saving-tips\/\">https:\/\/www.jpsco.com\/energy-saving-tips\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-17722\" src=\"https:\/\/www.carilec.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/JPSfooter-300x51.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"154\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carilec.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/JPSfooter-300x51.png 300w, https:\/\/carilec.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/JPSfooter-600x102.png 600w, https:\/\/carilec.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/JPSfooter-1024x175.png 1024w, https:\/\/carilec.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/JPSfooter-768x132.png 768w, https:\/\/carilec.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/JPSfooter.png 1249w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Decrease due to improvements in the FX Rate and fall in Fuel Prices October 13, 2021 JPS is pleased to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[3663,525],"class_list":["post-59352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-jamaicapublicservicecompany","tag-jps"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image":"https:\/\/carilec.org\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.svg","month_date":"Oct","day_date":"14","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carilec.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carilec.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carilec.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carilec.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carilec.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/carilec.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carilec.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carilec.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carilec.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}