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Take a closer look at these figures.  If you cannot make out the writings, Lifhaus will let you know in due course.  A good friend of our Senior Lifhaus Administrator spoke with us on Tuesday and revealed an interesting revelation we at Lifhaus have always missed.  It has to do with the much touted Cash Power at Solomon Islands Electricity Authority.  The exhibits on the left of this screen should reveal that one of the far most left exhibit is a purchase of $50 which gives you 12kWh.  To the right of that same exhibit is a purchase of $100 which gives you 23.9kWh.  Now notice the discrepancy?  Of course you should.

Our friend jokingly said, "I am so concerned about the digits after the decimal points too so when I make a purchase of $100, I ask them for two separate $50 purchase.  On each of those two $50 purchase, I get 12kWh each which gives me a total of 24kWh.  However, had I only made a single $100 purchase, it would have been 23.9kWh.  I am concerned about that 0.1kWh."

Indeed, we at Lifhaus ask too "What happened?"  Unfortunately, we were unable to seek an explanation from SIEA but Lifhaus will eventually ask the question and seek clarification.  We put the theory to test and when our Senior Lifhaus Administrator went to purchase $150 worth of Cash Power, he asked for 3 seperate $50 printouts giving him a total of 36kWh instead of the anticipated 35.8kWh a single $150 purchase would give.

"It is simple mathematics.  If $50 is half of $100 and it gives to 12kWh, you would naturally expect double that amount to give you 24kWh if you paid $100.  In this case it doesn't."  Our Senior Lifhaus Administrator is adamant that 0.2kWh or even 0.1kWh is a significant loss.  "If you use power wisely, these small differences does make a lot of difference, it could at times mean an additional 2 hours of light.  Thats important so I am planning on seeking an official explanation from SIEA."

Lifhaus also noted that Cash Power is charged at $4.18/kWh so "naturally, it would not be a whole figure as there will be remainders but what happens that makes this interesting is that SIEA rounds up the values when you buy $50 worth of power but they do not when you buy $100 or $150 for that matter.  The question I would naturally ask is why?"

Next time you head off to SIEA, be sure to make a wise decision when purchasing in increments of $50, you would be losing 0.1kWh or 0.2kWh with each increment.