Did your Electric bill this month double?

[KhunBENQ]

[KhunBENQ]

All time record.

I should add that part of the peak is due to the fact that the granddaughter is here for a whole month. She wastes a lot of power and water.

So we are four in a two storey house. Upper floor is an oven. Never had so much AC running in 11 years.

There is no unexpected rise per unit. Compared to previous months we have overshot the highest scale of 400 units (704 units used).

I hope this will settle????   

 

4291.60 Baht for 704 units.

That's 6.1 Baht/unit.

Edited April 23, 2023 by KhunBENQ

[MJCM]

5 minutes ago, KhunBENQ said:

As far as I can see, previous months you stayed under the 300 Units per month on average, and with that you got a discount on the Ft Rate (Fuel Surcharge) going over those 300 Units per month the discount stopped.

[KannikaP]

10 hours ago, AndyAndyAndy said:

No, still around 350 Baht for a house with two people.

How?

[MJCM]

1 minute ago, KannikaP said:

How?

No aircon no oven so no comfort

[KhunBENQ]

13 minutes ago, MJCM said:

with that you got a discount on the Ft Rate

Another knee shot.

Our meter was previously connected to an abandoned shop house and has just been swapped "without bureaucracy". So I didn't see a discount and was too lazy to cart my Thais to the PEA office to bring things in order.

Edited April 23, 2023 by KhunBENQ

[KannikaP]

16 minutes ago, KhunBENQ said:

There is no unexpected rise per unit. Compared to previous months we have overshot the highest scale of 400 units (704 units used).

I hope this will settle????   

There is no unexpected rise per unit. Compared to previous months we have overshot the highest scale of 400 units (704 units used).

I hope this will settle????   

 

As far as I can see, previous months you stayed under the 300 Units per month on average, and with that you got a discount on the Ft Rate (Fuel Surcharge) going over those 300 Units per month the discount stopped.

 

Is it 300 or 400 units to get discount please? 

I went over the 300 units last month, because they came to read the meter on 19th instead of 17th.

[MJCM]

16 minutes ago, KhunBENQ said:

All time record.

I should add that part of the peak is due to the fact that the granddaughter is here for a whole month. She wastes a lot of power and water.

So we are four in a two storey house. Upper floor is an oven. Never had so much AC running in 11 years.

There is no unexpected rise per unit. Compared to previous months we have overshot the highest scale of 400 units (704 units used).

I hope this will settle????   

 

4291.60 Baht for 704 units.

That's 6.1 Baht/unit.

There is something wrong with that calculation. Looking at the MEA site for 704 Units you should have paid around 3,819.13 THB.

 

Can you have a look at your PEA/MEA bill and see what it says under TYPE? (Is near the meter reading date)

 

This calculator I used: https://www.mea.or.th/en/aboutelectric/116/280/form/12

[KannikaP]

3 minutes ago, MJCM said:

No aircon no oven so no comfort

Candles?

[MJCM]

Just now, KannikaP said:

There is no unexpected rise per unit. Compared to previous months we have overshot the highest scale of 400 units (704 units used).

I hope this will settle????   

 

As far as I can see, previous months you stayed under the 300 Units per month on average, and with that you got a discount on the Ft Rate (Fuel Surcharge) going over those 300 Units per month the discount stopped.

 

Is it 300 or 400 units to get discount please? 

I went over the 300 units last month, because they came to read the meter on 19th instead of 17th.

Who are you quoting and expecting to answer?

[KannikaP]

Just now, MJCM said:

Who are you quoting and expecting to answer?

Anyone.

[MJCM]

@KhunBENQ

 

My guess you are on type 2.1 which is Small General Service on Normal Tariff and that is for businesses AFAIK and not for normal house holds.

 

You should go to the PEA and get that corrected.

[KhunBENQ]

3 minutes ago, MJCM said:

Can you have a look at your PEA/MEA bill and see what it says under TYPE? (Is near the meter reading date)

Type is 2125

Business?

[MJCM]

1 minute ago, KannikaP said:

Anyone.

Your quotes are all over the place

 

But to answer your question, less then 300 Units will get the discount, but for how LONG that is not sure.

[MJCM]

Just now, KhunBENQ said:

Type is 2125

Business?

Business Yep!

 

Normal households are 1125

Edited April 23, 2023 by MJCM

[Andrew Dwyer]

26 minutes ago, MJCM said:

As far as I can see, previous months you stayed under the 300 Units per month on average, and with that you got a discount on the Ft Rate (Fuel Surcharge) going over those 300 Units per month the discount stopped.

That’s what happened to me :

A increase in units used , 212 to 362 =  70.75% increase.

An increase in price, 887.66 baht to 1,867.30 = 110.36% increase.

 

On the cheaper bill ( 212 units ) the FT surcharge was reduced by 72%
No reduction on the 362 units used.

 

Hence once you get past the reduction limit, 300 units ??, the cost rises rapidly.

Good incentive to save electricity I guess.

Edited April 23, 2023 by Andrew Dwyer

[KhunBENQ]

1 minute ago, MJCM said:

Business Yep!

 

Normal households are 1125

Was afraid so. I will carefully try to move wife/daughter.

Headache ????

Edited April 23, 2023 by KhunBENQ

[MJCM]

Just now, KhunBENQ said:

Was afraid so. I will carefully try to move wife/daughter.

????

 

One thing (maybe helps or not) but when we bought the property next door, we wanted to change the name on the PEA Bill to my wife's, PEA advised us then to NOT change the name, but get a new meter which is a lot easier to do. Maybe that works the same in your case.

[MJCM]

3 minutes ago, Andrew Dwyer said:

Hence once you get past the reduction limit, 300 units ??, the cost rises rapidly.

Yep the FT for usages under 300 units is discounted from 0,9343 THB per unit to ONLY 0,26388 THB per unit. (it was even lower in For example Jan-Feb period (0,01393 THB))

 

But please DO Note. this was for months prior, can't say what is going to happen in the period April -May and further on

[Andrew Dwyer]

3 minutes ago, MJCM said:

Yep the FT for usages under 300 units is discounted from 0,9343 THB per unit to ONLY 0,26388 THB per unit. 

Yes, a 72% drop !!

( edited my previous post where I mistakenly calculated it to 28% )

[transam]

My usage is usually in the mid 300's, but this month 407, the bill is 1,999.70bht, so not too bad......????

 

I pity bungalow dwellers, with the A/C doing overtime..... ????

[KannikaP]

37 minutes ago, MJCM said:

Your quotes are all over the place

 

But to answer your question, less then 300 Units will get the discount, but for how LONG that is not sure.

Sorry about the quotes, but it can get difficult when trying to answer/quote two different members

[KannikaP]

14 minutes ago, transam said:

My usage is usually in the mid 300's, but this month 407, the bill is 1,999.70bht, so not too bad......????

 

I pity bungalow dwellers, with the A/C doing overtime..... ????

384 units cost me Bht 1988 this last month. Confusing eh?

[MJCM]

15 minutes ago, KannikaP said:

Sorry about the quotes, but it can get difficult when trying to answer/quote two different members

Just start typing your post, then go to post you want to quote, select the text with your mouse and then press "Quote Selection"

 

It will then show up in your post you are typing.

[MJCM]

16 minutes ago, KannikaP said:

384 units cost me Bht 1988 this last month. Confusing eh?

Correct  amount.

 

0 - 150 units = 487.26 THB

151- 384 units = 987.90 THB

Service Charge 24.82 THB

VAT 7% = 130.11 THB

Ft (Fuel Surcharge) = 358.77 THB (if you would have stayed under 300 units this would be significantly (as @Andrew Dwyer calculated) 72% lower

 

Total 1988,65 THB

[MJCM]

35 minutes ago, transam said:

My usage is usually in the mid 300's, but this month 407, the bill is 1,999.70bht, so not too bad......????

What is the type listed on the PEA / BILL? If you are 1125 then you would have paid 2,117.04 THB

[sandyf]

12 hours ago, Fred Ziffel said:

normal electric bill is about 1000

this month jumped to over 2200 B

Any one else have such an increase? Thanks

No, last month bill, 19th, was 1845.22, this month 2369.22.

In April 2021 the bill was 2333.97 about the same as this month and in June 2021 it was 2411.62. 

Bearing in mind the rise in unit cost, 2021 may have been warmer than now.

[Denim]

Bill in December was 560.

 

Got yesterdays bill ...................... 2500.

 

Not surprised. Air con on about 18 hours a day set at 27

[walt1]

My bill went up about 1000 Baht or so to just under 5000. I'll gladly pay that and more as long as the power stays on. I think having brownouts or low voltage as the lights are dimming up and down for the past hour. Nobody using a welder either.

[grain]

Yep, same story for us too. previous bills around 1200Bt, last one paid a couple days ago was 2500 Bt. But the AC is going full bore about 18 hours every day.