Power tariff reductions for most people will be closer to 20% rather than 25% as claimed by the government, Nationalist MP George Pullicino said this morning.
He said that his calculations, based on the government's figures and including the eco-reduction, showed that a single person household would save €80 in a year, exactly as much the energy minister's wife would earn in an hour.
A household of two persons would save €101 per year, which was less than how much the increase in the price of cigarettes would cost a single person.
Mr Pullicino said the tariff reductions were being made possible thanks to the savings from the (BWSC) power plant and the interconnector, with the former saving Enemalta €1m a week in oil purchases.
By March, the savings would have reached €64m but the government was only giving tariff cuts amounting to €25m.