Electricity bill

[Media1]

Yes l know it's been belted out before.

Anyway may l ask what others have been ruffly paying in a similar scenario please. Our condo is 4.50 per KW. 

We run one big fridge double door. l don't use the big TV much at all. The 3 lights are low voltage. The fan runs 24/7. Never really even turn AC on..Maybe a burst for 15 min on the rare occasion.

The meter is a 5 digit. The last digit slowly turns. We were previously being billed off just the 4 digits of the bill at reading time. Now they use all 5 digits saying they made a mistake before reading only 4 digits.

Any l have always paid around 6 700.Baht and with a AC usage in other condos.

This meter says 228 KW TOTAL 1026 Baht. l find this to be not believable with limited appliances. Do you think the meter is out ?

My previous condo we used AC and never had a bill like this.

[Crossy]

Ok quick and dirty sums-

 

One fan, 100W 24/7 = 2.4 units per day.

Fridge, guesstimate 2 units per day

 

4.5 units per day * 30 day month = 135 units for the things we know about.

 

Only 93 units to find, thats 130W averaged over the month.

 

Do you have a water heater? Cooking appliances? Computer?

 

What technology are your lights? (halogen, LED, something else). How long are they on?

 

Can you post a photo of the meter?

 

4.5 Baht per unit is good if you're not paying direct to MEA/PEA.

[KittenKong]

The meter is a 5 digit. The last digit slowly turns. We were previously being billed off just the 4 digits of the bill at reading time. Now they use all 5 digits saying they made a mistake before reading only 4 digits.

In a condo rather than an apartment that meter should be a proper PEA meter, though some older buildings may have their own meters and may resell the electricity from a single bill. But in that case they would normally be being charged the higher business tariff by the PEA and would be passing that on to you, which is not the case from the price per unit you mention.
So assuming it is an official PEA meter that means that the PEA should be reading it and sending a proper official PEA bill. So all your landlord/agent/front office needs to do is to read that bill and charge you accordingly. The idea of the PEA not knowing which digits to read on a meter is a non-starter. Besides which if they are now reading an extra digit then your consumption would be 10 times higher than before. So it sounds to me just like the usual idiotic nonsense one hears all the time here, as they mostly cant do the most basic maths.

That said, I have a fairly large condo in which I run my air-con 24/7, and I have a large PC on constantly, and a ceiling fan, and a fridge/freezer. I also have a hefty AV amp on most of the day, and a large screen TV, shower water heater, convection oven, washing machine etc. and my official PEA bill is usually around 1400-1800B. So your 1000B bill seems quite high, though if it was divided by 10 due to misreading of that last digit that would give 100B which would seem very low.

So I suspect it is just your landlord/agent who either has absolutely no idea what he is doing, or is pulling some sort of scam. Ask to see the official PEA bill, if it exists.