Paying your PEA Bill While Out Of Thailand

[NCC1701A]

I don't have a Thai ID number to use the PEA app and when I use my landlords number it lists all their properties and I really don't want to get into that as they don't speak English and I want to keep it simple. So, how can I pay my PEA bill? I have a feeling I can't which is a bummer because I want to be able to leave for more than a month without the power being shut off.     

[jackdd]

I remember reading here on Thaivisa that somebody said you can pay ahead at an PEA office, like that you deposit a few thousand baht with them, and then they will deduct your bills from this.

Do you have somebody who can take a picture of the bill and send it to you? Then you could pay it with your online banking, or with an app like for example TrueMoney wallet

[toofarnorth]

Don't know if this helps but opposite me is a big house that the owner comes to about 3 times a year . All the PEA bills get stuck in his tin on the gate . My wife says the bills are nothing to pay . If the bill for the month comes to less then 100B it is added on to the next one , makes sense . No one there so no bill.

[kwonitoy]

What Jack said.

I put several thousand baht on PEA, AIS, True and then they just debt the charge every month, get the bills by email and you can keep track.

[NCC1701A]

5 minutes ago, toofarnorth said:

Don't know if this helps but opposite me is a big house that the owner comes to about 3 times a year . All the PEA bills get stuck in his tin on the gate . My wife says the bills are nothing to pay . If the bill for the month comes to less then 100B it is added on to the next one , makes sense . No one there so no bill.

Thank you I have internet and CCTV system running. Not sure if that is 100 baht.  

[KittenKong]

I have been paying my PEA bill by direct debit for nearly 10 years. It has never gone wrong and I have never had to even think about it.

[CRUNCHER]

As above. Direct debit is the way to go.

 

If you live in a condo check with the management. Some will pay it for you if you leave enough money. Perhaps there is a small charge for the service.

[CygnusX1]

14 hours ago, kwonitoy said:

 

I put several thousand baht on PEA, AIS, True and then they just debt the charge every month, get the bills by email and you can keep track.

How did you manage that? A couple of months ago, I went to PEA’s Pattaya head office, and they told me it was absolutely impossible to pay electricity bills in advance. I asked them very clearly in both English and in my rudimentary Thai. Their accounts section was unable to cope with negative numbers.

 

I then went to a Bangkok bank branch to see if I could have electricity payments automatically debited to my bank account. The staff member, who was fluent in English, spent 45 minutes filling out a fearsomely complicated form, which I took back to PEA head office. However, a couple of weeks ago, the estate agent that I bought the condo from told me she received an overdue bill, and kindly paid it for me with some money I’d left. However, I can’t expect her to keep on providing me with a free accounting service, and by the time I return to Thailand in a couple of months I expect to have the electricity disconnected, as even though I switched the power off at the fuse box, I believe there’s a small monthly fixed charge. Hope toofarnorth’s correct in that they’ll just add it to the next bill.

[jabis]

Create a login, collect the meter id and add it there:
https://eservice.pea.co.th/Account/Login

edit: I actually registered here, and the login "just worked" on the new site above
https://epay.pea.co.th/epay/?Form1:argcContent=frmRegister.jsp

 

[CygnusX1]

Thanks Jabis, I’ll look into that when I’m back in Thailand (stupidly forgot to take a bill with the meter ID with me). However, it might need a Thai credit card? which is no doubt a whole new world of bureaucratic pain for me to get.

[jabis]

3 hours ago, CygnusX1 said:

Thanks Jabis, I’ll look into that when I’m back in Thailand (stupidly forgot to take a bill with the meter ID with me). However, it might need a Thai credit card? which is no doubt a whole new world of bureaucratic pain for me to get.

You can pay with any credit/debit card or online banks (having 10 baht surcharge)
EDIT: I rather pay with online bank, with 10 baht surcharge, than store credit card information on their server ????

[Crossy]

19 hours ago, NCC1701A said:

I don't have a Thai ID number to use the PEA app and when I use my landlords number it lists all their properties and I really don't want to get into that as they don't speak English and I want to keep it simple.

 

You can make up a Thai ID number, change a couple of middle digits of a real number. You can check it has a valid checksum (actually a Luhn check digit for the pedants) using this little app 

https://sourceforge.net/projects/thaiidnumcheck/ (if you're not on a PC there are several online checkers too).

 

The PEA app does pretty much no checking other than the check digit and if you happen to hit a real ID just cancel and try again with a different number.

 

[Curt1591]

We pay PEA, automatically and directly, through a savings account at our bank.

[jabis]

5 minutes ago, Crossy said:

 

You can make up a Thai ID number, change a couple of middle digits of a real number. You can check it has a valid checksum (actually a Luhn check digit for the pedants) using this little app 

https://sourceforge.net/projects/thaiidnumcheck/ (if you're not on a PC there are several online checkers too).

 

The PEA app does pretty much no checking other than the check digit and if you happen to hit a real ID just cancel and try again with a different number.

 

The link I provided above doesn't require a false identity - you just have to register, then add your meter and log in with your email and password combo ????

[Crossy]

4 minutes ago, jabis said:

you just have to register, then add your meter and log in with your email and password combo 

 

AND both links work OK with Google Translate as there doesn't appear to be an English option.

 

It's annoying that the app doesn't have the option to use your PP number like the PEA site does, but the app does work in English.

 

Now if their developers could actually talk to one another ...

 

[Qman]

You can pay online using the phone app from Kasikorn.  You need the account number from the invoice and when you input the number it pulls up your current balance and you just pay online.  Works very easy and can be used for rentals or owned property.  Not sure about other banks.  I know Kasikorn did not have a PEA payment option last year but it is now available.

[crazykopite]

Up until last month PEA would send me a bill by email I could then pay via my online banking , however they have now installed a plastic tube by my metre and put a printed bill in it which I find is a bit of a nuisance I tried to get an explanation but had no luck . If I were you I would just make sure the fridge was empty and switch off the fuse box in your property so that no electricity is being used   I don’t think they would switch you off .

[murraynz]

19 hours ago, KittenKong said:

I have been paying my PEA bill by direct debit for nearly 10 years. It has never gone wrong and I have never had to even think about it.

same same

[LukKrueng]

8 hours ago, CygnusX1 said:

 

I then went to a Bangkok bank branch to see if I could have electricity payments automatically debited to my bank account. The staff member, who was fluent in English, spent 45 minutes filling out a fearsomely complicated form, which I took back to PEA head office. However, a couple of weeks ago, the estate agent that I bought the condo from told me she received an overdue bill,

it can take upto 2 bill cycles to kick in

[RocketDog]

I went to Bangkok bank and ask how to pay PEA with my debit card.

She said they are not listed as a payee to make transfers to. There is no way to get a payee added. Since nobody uses electricity I guess it makes sense for PEA to shun a minor bank like BBL.

 

Then she called PEA and they confirmed that.

 

She advised me to use the PEA phone app and pay by credit card. My mastercard just announced the foreign payments fee just increased from 5% to 10% and the exchange rate rape is still free.

 

I'll try the two links earlier in this thread. But is suspect just killing all the power before leaving will keep the disconnect from happening. If it does just get it connected again I guess. Sigh.........

 

 

[matador007]

As posters said, looks like there are options for PEA.
 

Last check I did not see those same options for water bill.

@NCC1701A or anyone, what do you use for paying water bill ?  (HH/Prachuap area if it matters)

[stbkk]

I pay my electricity bill via my Bangkok Bank internet banking each month. Once I registered them as a payee (using the CA Ref on the bill as reference) I don't even need to see a bill. I go through the bill payment process and it comes up with the bill amount automatically (BEFORE I press confirm!).

 

I set it all up in about 5 minutes using Bangkok bank internet banking.

 

Hope that helps.

 

[NCC1701A]

27 minutes ago, stbkk said:

I pay my electricity bill via my Bangkok Bank internet banking each month.

PEA? or the other big electric company?

[NCC1701A]

21 hours ago, KittenKong said:

I have been paying my PEA bill by direct debit for nearly 10 years. It has never gone wrong and I have never had to even think about it.

how?

[NCC1701A]

5 hours ago, Curt1591 said:

We pay PEA, automatically and directly, through a savings account at our bank.

how?

[KittenKong]

2 minutes ago, NCC1701A said:

how?

Go to PEA with a recent bill, get direct debit form, go to bank, get them to complete form.

 

I think that was how I did it but they may have altered it slightly since then. Ask your bank.

[KittenKong]

8 minutes ago, NCC1701A said:

PEA? or the other big electric company?

As far as I know there are only two: PEA (provincial) and MEA (metropolitan). MEA is for Bangkok.

[KhunBENQ]

42 minutes ago, KittenKong said:

As far as I know there are only two: PEA (provincial) and MEA (metropolitan). MEA is for Bangkok.

PEA and MEA sell power to households and businesses.

Prices/conditions are equal.

 

EGAT generates and buys power for the country (not dealing with private customers).

[atyclb]

i just added the electric as a payee on bkk bank internet banking and login, choose that payee and it shows amount owed if any.

 

one thing that is extremely important if you will be outside of thailand is to get international roaming for your thai mobile number as you may need to receive passwords etc related to online banking for security reasons. you can turn off data when roaming and sms message are not expensive to receive.

[TigerandDog]

They can direct debit your Thai bank account. You can stop the process upon your return.