Thailand Consumers Council urges government to lower fuel tariff and promote home solar panels use

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by Mitch Connor

The Thailand Consumers Council (TCC) is urging the government to consider lowering the fuel tariff (Ft) amid mounting complaints about high electricity bills while suggesting that the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) promote the use of domestic solar panels to help address the problem.

 

Itthaboon Onwongsa, TCC deputy secretary, noted during a seminar discussing recent increases in power costs, that the way Thailand generates its electricity is partly to blame for the recent spikes observed by households and industries.

Onwongsa explained that the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (Egat), despite its name, only produces approximately 34-35% of the electricity used in the country. The remaining electricity has to be purchased from various private companies, which Egat then resells to the Metropolitan Electricity Authority and Provincial Electricity Authority.

 

“The government must review its contracts with private companies, and in the meantime, it should call off the construction of new private power plants,” Onwongsa said.

 

Full story: https://thethaiger.com/news/national/thailand-consumers-council-urges-government-to-lower-fuel-tariff-and-promote-home-solar-panels-use

 

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I can't understand why there aren't solar panels on every roof.I acknowledge that someone earning 400 baht/day can't afford it but the gov't should provide incentives surley.Apparently PEA makes it difficult to transfer excess power to the grid.