The private sector will formally ask the government to peg the electricity rate at 4.72 baht per unit from January until April, claiming that any increase of electricity prices will heavily impact business and industry, which are just recovering after the pandemic.

 

Kriangkrai Thiennukul, president of the Federation of Thai Industries, representing the Joint Standing Committee on Commerce, Industry and Banking, said today (Friday) that the private sector is concerned that any rate increase would also impact members of the public and reduce Thailand’s competitiveness vis-à-vis other countries in the region.

 

He claimed that the Vietnamese government decided to freeze the electricity rate at about 2.88 baht per unit for a year, while Thailand plans to increase it by 14%-28%, from 4.72 baht/unit to as much as 6.03 baht/unit from January 1st.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/thai-private-sector-seeks-freeze-on-electricity-prices-from-january-to-april/

 

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14 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

He claimed that the Vietnamese government decided to freeze the electricity rate at about 2.88 baht per unit for a year, while Thailand plans to increase it by 14%-28%, from 4.72 baht/unit to as much as 6.03 baht/unit from January 1st.

And right there, in that very statement, is one of the main reasons that Thailand is losing Export Business, and FDI.

Its not about the numbers, but the thinking behind them.

 

16 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

He claimed that the Vietnamese government decided to freeze the electricity rate at about 2.88 baht per unit for a year, while Thailand plans to increase it by 14%-28%, from 4.72 baht/unit to as much as 6.03 baht/unit from January 1st

Bringing happiness to the people.

If that's the price of electricty people should have to pay it. Where do they think the Government gets money to subsidise electricty, the magic money tree? You either pay more for electricity or more taxes.

30 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

Bringing happiness to the people.

And as we all know - it's all about the people and their well being. 

????

It is alright this time of year, winter, no need for air-con during the day.  Our last bill was 1202 baht.  I hate to think what our bill will be like in summer when we run air-con during the day.  Have to run air-con for some of the night just to cool the room down.  28C is comfortable.  Still electricity rates here are far cheaper than in Australia.  I am thankful for this.

1 hour ago, hotchilli said:

Bringing happiness to the people.

Depends where they get the money from to subsidize the electricity...or do they  have cheaper sources?

I see some virtue in charging users for the true cost of energy. Funny the english speaking crowd, true capitalists in essence seem to think otherwise.

With little hydro difficult with rising fossil fuel prices going crazy, thanks to Putin.

Have a look at the UK unit price & weep for them.

Nobody needs aircon in a home during the day unless it is cery badly designed & built