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Electric bills set to increase from January 

 

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Sanook reported that Thailand will face an increase in charges for electricity from the start of next year.

 

The FT rate is being revised from -11.60 to -15.90 satang.

 

This means that prices will rise by 4.3 satang per electrical unit.

 

Average pretax prices will thus be 3.6396 baht per unit.

 

The changes to the FT rate relate to the period from January to April 2019.

 

Increased costs of fuel used in generating electricity are to blame.  

 

Source: Sanook

 
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Posted
1 hour ago, webfact said:

This means that prices will rise by 4.3 satang per electrical unit

an this is a rise? Really nothing to write about uh....

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Posted
47 minutes ago, watcharacters said:

 

I thought the current official taxed rate for electricity was  ฿4.5 per kilowatt hour?

 

My last bill was ฿4.04 per kWh - pretax. I wish I could get the ฿3.6396 they say will be average after the price rise.

Posted
28 minutes ago, Odysseus123 said:

I just  calculated...

 

My Thai bill against my  Aussie bill.

 

As posters may or may not realize there is a heck of a lot of controversy about the cost in Oz of energy..and rightly so..

 

Nevertheless my  Aussie bill is smaller and that does not take into account the numerous blackouts sustained under Thailand 4.0.

Forget about the useless water supply..

 

At the moment it stands at Australia..7,500 baht per 3 months..

Thailand-4,200 baht per one month.

But do you use air conditioning much? That nearly doubles my bill. I never used air conditioning in Australia, in SE Queensland. I didn't even have it. Fans were sufficient in summer.

 

Let's compare another country in SE Asia. Philippines - my last bill was 13.06 PHP per kWh, which is 8.11 THB per kWh. nearly double. Paying that much my current bill would have been 6850 baht. From my perspective, electricity is a bargain in Thailand.

 

I get few blackouts here, but over there they are regular and constant.

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1 hour ago, Odysseus123 said:

At the moment it stands at Australia..7,500 baht per 3 months..

Thailand-4,200 baht per one month.

Really means nothing unless you also quote the Kwh used in each case.

Posted
2 hours ago, Odysseus123 said:

My Thai bill against my  Aussie bill.

At the moment it stands at Australia..7,500 baht per 3 months..

Thailand-4,200 baht per one month.

Very funny...what are you comparing? You are comparing apples with oranges ????

 

Posted (edited)
26 minutes ago, andre47 said:

Very funny...what are you comparing? You are comparing apples with oranges ????

 

Nope..I am comparing electricity bills..

 

First world country..to third word world-sans the local supply blowing up on a regular basis.

 

Comprende compadre?

 

i am not into oriental fantasies on a regular basis.

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1 minute ago, Odysseus123 said:

Nope..I am comparing electricity bills..

 

First world country..to third word world-sans the local supply bowing up on a regular basis.

 

Comprende compadre?

If your comparison should make any sense you should compare your consumption (kwh) and even then....Australia is large...where in Australia? How is the temperature? (aircon) How many people are living here and there?

You can only compare the cost per kwh but not the final amount of your bill.

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Posted
4 hours ago, CelticBhoy said:

This is shocking.

Is this live news?

It's brought me down to earth.

Currently my bills are enough already.

They really want to 'sock-it' to us.

I think I'll pull the plug on Thailand.

If 4.3 satangs per unit put you over the edge, my heart goes out to you. That is about 40 baht per month on a 3000 baht bill. Inflation is rampant everywhere, despite what the Liars are telling us. So a minor increase is a reasonable thing. 

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Posted
2 minutes ago, andre47 said:

If your comparison should make any sense you should compare your consumption (kwh) and even then....Australia is large...where in Australia? How is the temperature? (aircon) How many people are living here and there?

You can only compare the cost per kwh but not the final amount of your bill.

Keep on comparing persimmons to kiwi fruit if you please..keep on scrambling.

 

Meanwhile..my gawd..the power has gone off with a blam at the end of the soi...3rd world nightmare,as usual.

 

Oriental fantasy.These people could not run a booze up in a brewery.

Posted
5 minutes ago, Odysseus123 said:

Keep on comparing persimmons to kiwi fruit if you please..keep on scrambling.

 

Meanwhile..my gawd..the power has gone off with a blam at the end of the soi...3rd world nightmare,as usual.

 

Oriental fantasy.These people could not run a booze up in a brewery.

What did you smoke? It must be good stuff ????

 

Posted (edited)
9 minutes ago, andre47 said:

What did you smoke? It must be good stuff ????

 

Yep-nothin' like a decent toke of reality.

 

Can't have that can we?

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Posted
3 hours ago, tropo said:

But do you use air conditioning much? That nearly doubles my bill. I never used air conditioning in Australia, in SE Queensland. I didn't even have it. Fans were sufficient in summer.

 

Let's compare another country in SE Asia. Philippines - my last bill was 13.06 PHP per kWh, which is 8.11 THB per kWh. nearly double. Paying that much my current bill would have been 6850 baht. From my perspective, electricity is a bargain in Thailand.

 

I get few blackouts here, but over there they are regular and constant.

An intelligent post.

 

Appliances are higher but air con lower.

 

The transformer has never blown up at the end of my street-altho' it regularly discombobulates at the end of my soi.

 

Nothing better than being without power and water-it is good for the Buddhist soul-living opposite a major.thriving regional city.

 

Once again..these people could not run a moderately tipsy booze up in a brewery..

 

 

 

 

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As I received my first electric bill last month can someone explain what the FT rate is.
FT is the Fuel Tarrif...as a lot of electricity is produced using gas and oil the tariff raises and falls depending on oil price...though very delayed as the pre buy and have reserves...+ - government subsidies.
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Posted
5 hours ago, ThaidDown said:

That is incorrect

 

The Ft rate is actually being revised from -15.90 satang to -11.60 satang.

 

And for most people with a monthly bill of around 2500, it will represent an increase of 25 to 30 baht.  Not quite the terrible news some posters were expecting on reading the article, which could not even get the figures the correct way round, since as a previous poster pointed out, the current FT (deduction) rate is 15.90 to be reduced to 11.60, thereby representing a small increase in the bill.

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