{"id":238287,"date":"2026-07-08T18:12:50","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T16:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-lerc-cuts-libenergy-tariff-by-12-percent-slashes-connection-fee\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T18:12:50","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T16:12:50","slug":"liberia-lerc-cuts-libenergy-tariff-by-12-percent-slashes-connection-fee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-lerc-cuts-libenergy-tariff-by-12-percent-slashes-connection-fee\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Lerc Cuts Libenergy Tariff By 12 Percent, Slashes Connection Fee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"50\">The Liberia Electricity Regulatory Commission (LERC) has approved a 12 percent reduction in LIBENERGY&#8217;s electricity tariff and slashed the cost of new single-phase electricity connections from US$110 to US$40; a move aimed at expanding access to affordable electricity while improving the quality and reliability of power services in southeastern Liberia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">The decision, announced on July 6 in Zwedru City, Grand Gedeh County, follows months of technical assessments, stakeholder consultations, and public&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607080383.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Liberia Electricity Regulatory Commission (LERC) has approved a 12 percent reduction in LIBENERGY&#8217;s electricity tariff and slashed the cost of new single-phase electricity connections from US$110 to US$40; a move aimed at expanding access to affordable electricity while improving the quality and reliability of power services in southeastern Liberia. The decision, announced on July [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,12402,7210,9136,31153,52637,4712,1107,257,6720,9700,254,6723],"class_list":["post-238287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-connection","tag-cuts","tag-fee","tag-lerc","tag-libenergy","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-percent","tag-slashes","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tariff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}