just got a letter with the Electric bill  as it in Thia cant read in properly   .. but was told it say the landlord can claim free electric.?   but only the landlord not the tenant  ???? very odd why he should he get it .....as a renter pays the bills...  was told as he is the owner of the meter he gets it  do you  suppose he  should pass the money on to the renter????

Not free electricity...but can reclaim the initial deposit he paid to have meter installed

Thanks for bringing this up and i hope that others can shed some light on it.

 

   Our landlord lives far away and it has to be the one who's mentioned on the electricity bill to claim any money.

 

    I've seen some other documents, but it was more about the meter installation fees. 

 

    Please share your knowledge here.   

The letter seems to be about  getting the meter deposit back...for a 5/15 AMP meter my wife says she will receive 300 baht.

If the bill is in your name you have to register to claim

repayment of the cost of deposit you paid on electric

meter, circa 2K Baht, my wife has already applied,now

have to wait.

regards Worgeordie

and if a few years down the road the meter is damaged or fails after you get your deposit back, you're on the hook plus you'll have to put another deposit on the replacement, no thanks I'll let em keep the 60 bucks..

Edited April 1, 20206 yr by from the home of CC

Only residential houses and small companies qualify for a meter deposit reclaim.

 

5/15A 300฿

15/30A  2000฿

30/100A 4000฿

1 hour ago, from the home of CC said:

no thanks I'll let em keep the 60 bucks..

So will we.

The topic was discussed in other thread(s).

It lead to overload at the PEA (MEA?) servers and we decided to drive to the office to pay the bill.

So antiquated

It took days for their IT to recover and seems still not 100% back to normal.

so by the sounds of it no benefit to the renter at all in times of need ,,, thought it was to help up in the times of low income ..

4 minutes ago, docspinoff said:

so by the sounds of it no benefit to the renter at all in times of need ,,, thought it was to help up in the times of low income ..

Benefit in times of need ? are you a low income Thai ?

We own our house ,but the electricity is still in the name of the previous owner ,they want 2k to change it to our name,cant be bothered ,anyway we had a new meter installed last month ,all in our street did.

1 hour ago, docspinoff said:

thought it was to help up in the times of low income ..

If you have a 5/15 amp meter and use less than 50 units of electricity per month then  those units are free

( I'm not too sure but think  must be below 50 for 3 months before it becomes free ? )

Edited April 1, 20206 yr by johng

3 hours ago, CLS said:

Only residential houses and small companies qualify for a meter deposit reclaim.

 

5/15A 300฿

15/30A  2000฿

30/100A 4000฿

Correct it seems that way, my has registered and is waiting to see what happens. 

Thanks wondered why the owner wanted a copy of my electric bill

3 hours ago, kingstonkid said:

Thanks wondered why the owner wanted a copy of my electric bill

Tell him there's a 1000 baht copy fee

On 4/1/2020 at 6:30 AM, tonray said:

Not free electricity...but can reclaim the initial deposit he paid to have meter installed

Seems like it's 50 percent of the deposit that can be reclaimed.

 

My girlfriend reclaimed our house deposit, which I asked her to do as it's about 6 times as high as any actual use, we could have half back. Well, it's anyway better only to have 3+ times monthly use in deposit, so C19 is after all good for something...????

23 hours ago, KhunBENQ said:

So will we.

The topic was discussed in other thread(s).

It lead to overload at the PEA (MEA?) servers and we decided to drive to the office to pay the bill.

So antiquated

It took days for their IT to recover and seems still not 100% back to normal.

The wife went to the local PEA to get the deposit but was told they cannot do it, just do it online. But as you said  about the IT, she could not register online

Yes...rebate on the meter up to ฿2000. Wife applied a week ago. Waiting...but not holding breath.