So Its May Now And The Hot Season Is Running! What Is Your Electric Bill Telling So Far?

[Spoonman]

house ~600m², number of aircons 19, average temperature 26.5ºC. for the period march 21 till april 20 i paid 440 Baht.

So you dont use them 19 aircons yeah ??

2 bed house here, 3 ac's master room ac 24/7, lounge ac and office ac maybe 4 to 5 hrs each Sat/Sun arvo, I just paid 3800b for the previous month.

[PattayaParent]

3 bedroom 2 storey house and the leccy bill has shot up to almost 500 Baht a month.

[PattayaParent]

house ~600m², number of aircons 19, average temperature 26.5ºC. for the period march 21 till april 20 i paid 440 Baht.

So you dont use them 19 aircons yeah ??

2 bed house here, 3 ac's master room ac 24/7, lounge ac and office ac maybe 4 to 5 hrs each Sat/Sun arvo, I just paid 3800b for the previous month.

He's got half a dozen greyhounds on a treadmill and the missus on an exercise bike hooked up to a generator 18 hours a day.

[CHdiver]

house ~600m², number of aircons 19, average temperature 26.5ºC. for the period march 21 till april 20 i paid 440 Baht.

So you dont use them 19 aircons yeah ??

2 bed house here, 3 ac's master room ac 24/7, lounge ac and office ac maybe 4 to 5 hrs each Sat/Sun arvo, I just paid 3800b for the previous month.

I think the rest of that bill he paid in the Pattaya Forum, if I remember correctly its was around 14k baht more

[kopite]

5 bed house, 8 units, last month came to 2700

only run 2 units a few hours a day, her indoors gets cold

Edited May 8, 2010 by kopite

[Naam]

house ~600m², number of aircons 19, average temperature 26.5ºC. for the period march 21 till april 20 i paid 440 Baht.

So you dont use them 19 aircons yeah ??

2 bed house here, 3 ac's master room ac 24/7, lounge ac and office ac maybe 4 to 5 hrs each Sat/Sun arvo, I just paid 3800b for the previous month.

He's got half a dozen greyhounds on a treadmill and the missus on an exercise bike hooked up to a generator 18 hours a day.

OOPS! did i forget to mention that i paid 440 Baht per day?

[jfchandler]

No, that's rather a half dozen household servants on the treadmills, and the missus cracking the whip behind them...

He's got half a dozen greyhounds on a treadmill and the missus on an exercise bike hooked up to a generator 18 hours a day.

[jazzbo]

One large room with a wall and pedestal fan, A/C used sparingly, a refrigerator and a convection oven on the balcony @ 10 baht per unit 1750B for April ... Once I am home I live in boxer shorts. When the ThGF once came over and said 'It's hot in here', I said no problem: Just take off your clothes.

The water bill is up bcz I take lots of showers a la the 'mandi' habit from Sumatra.

[onethailand]

3BR condo with 4 newer A/C units. Mostly run 3 at night for 8 hours, rarely run the one in the living room.

Last month just under 6000 baht. In my old unit, with old A/C, that would've been a 10K bill.

[Chaimai]

House and business combined. One aircomn unit going all night the other occasionally. 6 - 12 fans going all day, triple drinks fridge, 2 other fridges, 2 large chest freezers, numerous bits of electrical equipment + 2 tv's and a computer. 7,000 Baht last month, normally 5,000 Baht when the bedroom aircon is rarely/not used.

[geordie]

2 Storey,3 Bedroom 4 bathroom.

5 aircon 2 down stairs running mostly all day, 2 bedrooms units running all night. Aprils bill 2.900 baht.

[Scott]

3 bedroom house, with 4 air conditions. One runs all night, the others are used sparingly. 3 refrigerators. Electric bill 1,800 baht for April--about 300 baht higher than usual.

[jfchandler]

If you sort all this out, I believe, what it suggests is that there can be widely varying electric RATE charges, depending on where you live in Thailand.

I believe, the best deal is if you're billing directly thru the Thai govt. MEA... which has a sliding rate scale based on usage.

Then there are some areas/developments with higher rates, like a flat 6 baht per unit...

And then, there are some individual projects that try to rip off their tenants by charging ridiculously over priced electric rates, perhaps to offset revenues from other areas, such as perhaps attractive monthly rental rates that are used to lure in tenants who may not pay as close attention to the project's electric rates.

I'm no expert in these matters, but that's what I've gleaned over the past couple years. Please feel free to correct and or supplement...

[SICA]

2 bedroom house in On-nut. Work from home occasionally - TV always on, 2 air-con and at least one running most of the time = 1,600B

[Aurelia]

Just posted! From 3000 to 8239 Baht for a two bedroom Shophouse in BKK. Turns out I might be overpaying...

*Champion!*

[Spee]

At 7 Baht per unit I expect the electricity bill to be higher than the rent,

You got it right on there.

We only have aircon in one room at the house so the power bill isn't that high. But at the flat that my partner rents in Ayutthaya, this month's electrical bill was more than the rent. I would rather she have the aircon than not. I worked on a job all summer in Germany in 2003 when the European heatwave caused hundreds of heat related deaths because there was no aircon. Some of my hotels had no aircon and they were positively uninhabitable until well into the evening.