Current Cost Of A Unit Of Electricity

[longball53098]

See this site for the calculation of tariffs.

MEA Tariffs

[longball53098]

Here is a handy tariff calculator that I pulled off of the MEA site. It is written in Thai but easy to figure out or use Google Translator to convert the text to another language.

I used the calculator sheet 1.1 and it is very close to my last months invoice.

ERCalculate2.xls

[Pib]

I use 1500 to 2000 KWH per month depending on the month of the year...Yeap, I've always got one or two Air Con's running. I live in a single family house here in Bangkok. When all charges/taxes/fees/etc., are considered, I pay 4.07 baht/KWH.

Go to this MEA web page for rates info in English. http://www.mea.or.th/internet/neweng/ElectricRate.pdf

[longball53098]

If I use the handy rate calculator I posted above that 2000 kwh usage a month is 8154 baht for the month. So this is what Pib is paying.

[thaiozy]

yeh I pay 5 baht per unit too. My bill doubled when I put in the airconditioner!!!

[but it's worth it - it's still about a third of what I was paying in Australia]

Sure is I have a big place with no air con or electic hot water but have water pump from tank in all i would say 6 people use the dwellings & we pay 800 bht a month

[Pib]

If I use the handy rate calculator I posted above that 2000 kwh usage a month is 8154 baht for the month. So this is what Pib is paying.

Yes, I tried the calculator and it gives me a result which matches my past bills right to the stang.

[antony77]

reading all the posts it seems about bt 4 per kwh is the actual cost.

[bdenner]

3.6 Baht/Unit includes taxes and surcharges here in the rice paddies of NE Isaan but depends on how much one uses, some sort of a sliding scale which I'm yet to work out places a surcharge on the bill depending the total. Last month it added .9255 Baht per unit. We average 390 units per month at about 1400 Baht.

[Lancelot]

Why do you think electricity is free in Pattaya, or do you not know how to do simple math?

Can you kindly point out where I said that I thought electricity was free in any of my posts?

As to what I think, you sir are a moron.

Have a nice life

[hhgz]

"i heard that if your electric bill is/was under 500 the govt pays for it, not sure if this is true or still applies"

It's half that, and it still applies.

[IanForbes]

Here at my hotel in Chiang Mai I pay 6 baht per unit for my one room with shower room. But, the internet is terrible. I checked at another place and they charge 7 baht per unit in a very nice two room separate unit, but it's 2000 baht more a month. My hotel room only costs about 4000 baht per month including electricity.

[beano2274]

The condo owners also have to work out which is the best option for the transformers, if it is raised then it is cheaper, on ground level more expensive.

Condo owners charge what they want, the building next door could be half of what you pay, this is Thailand

[bdenner]

Why do you think electricity is free in Pattaya, or do you not know how to do simple math?

Can you kindly point out where I said that I thought electricity was free in any of my posts?

As to what I think, you sir are a moron.

Have a nice life

Don't know what you two are arguing about and I'm not sure if it is still in force nation wide, still is here, but there is a system that started about mid last year where the poor are given the 1st 120 Baht free then on a sliding scale up to 500 Baht is subsidized.

[CaptHaddock]

In a condo sublet who charges the electricity surcharge? We looked at a nice apartment on Soi Lang Suan, but there were two electric rates: 9 baht per unit for AC and 4 for all other electric uses. I seem to remember the woman showing us the place claiming that the payment for electricity went to the condo management, not the landlord. Is that likely? If so, it would seem not to be negotiable.

Not in Thailand now, so I can't go back and ask.

[Yorkie]

Either at the end of last year (2011) or the begining of this year the rates for domestic electricity changed. The fuel tax has dropped and is currently 0, however, my bill (less than 400 kwh) has increased by 6.5%. Having searched the net in vain, I am unable to discover the new domestic tariffs. Can anyone help?

[barefoot1988]

Here at my hotel in Chiang Mai I pay 6 baht per unit for my one room with shower room. But, the internet is terrible. I checked at another place and they charge 7 baht per unit in a very nice two room separate unit, but it's 2000 baht more a month. My hotel room only costs about 4000 baht per month including electricity.

im too paying 7baht per unit in cm. do you mind pm the place of your hotel?

[nocturn]

This is just a gloating message I havenot paid a satang in 6 months since I proved to the electric company they were double charging me. The rate was right but meter readings werenot updated properly.

please explain, my electricity bill has essentially doubled in the last couple years and i cant figure it out.

[billd766]

I just got the bill today for the 2 houses we have.

It came to 2,980.83 baht for 805 units.

That works out at 3.702 baht per unit.

On top of that was VAT at 7% making a total charge of 3189.49 baht or 3.962 baht per unit.

106.316 baht per day.

It is 39 in the shade outside today at 2pm.

Back in October 2010 when I started logging this cr*p it was 3.923 baht per unit inc VAT so in 2 years, for me at least it has only risen by 0.39 baht per unit and i use pretty much the same amount of electricity now as I did then.

[BigJohnnyBKK]

I've *never* heard of an apartment or condo block passing through the retail per-unit price, they **all** mark it up.

My most recent bill (I rent a rowhouse) of THB 2633 for 673 units comes to 3.91 baht per unit including all the fees VAT whatever.

So if they're only marking up 20% that's not bad at all.

When I rented the top two floors of a rowhouse (above a massage shop! 8-) I paid to have a meter installed tied into my floor's circuits, and I voluntarily gave the landlord a 10% markup just so she could rest easy it wasn't going in my favor.

The key thing in a condo/apartment is that you can verify yourself the meter readings any time you like. I would do this on the 1st of every month as a spot check once in a while, and as long as it was in the ballpark, didn't worry about it.

The bigger crime for me being in a place like that is not having choice of ISP, cable/satellite TV vendor.

You can get a nice house in Bangkok for B10-15K, even within walking distance of a BTS stop, but of course you have to cover security measures, maintenance, furniture etc so only suitable for long-stayers.

[jb5music]

The...."

"Current Cost Of A Unit Of Electricity"as of 2005

. Shouldn't some forums be removed? Especially ones with "recent" or "current info" dated practically 10 years ago in Thailand? And try Googling this now TODAY which happens to be 2012. Same thing all over Google. The latest price of electricity in the country of Thailand NOWHERE to be found past like 5 years ago. Very strange.