The news you'd rather not hear - electricity prices set to rise for May to August

[webfact]

The news you'd rather not hear - electricity prices set to rise for May to August

 

Picture: Thai Rath

 

BANGKOK: -- Electricity prices for the next four months will rise by 12.52 satang per unit.

 

The hike is due to increase in costs for generating electricity and is due to a change in the FT (fuel tax) rate that fluctuates according to costs in operating power plants, reported Thai Rath.

 

The change will mean the average cost of a unit of electricity will be 3.5079 per unit from May to August.

 

The FT rate has been adjusted from -24.77 to -37.29 said spokesman Wiraphon Jirapraditthakun meaning that prices would rise.

 

This is due to increased gas prices.

 

Source: Thai Rath

 

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[ukrules]

I wonder how much electricity costs in other nearby countries like say Cambodia and Vietnam ?

 

Is it comparable ?

[ezzra]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

The hike is due to increase in costs for generating electricity and is due to a change in the FT

Well I'm sure that it has nothing to  do with the price of the fish in the market is it?

they always come up with those magical wand word to justify increase TF cost, have we ever seen the FT goes down? NO, never,

how this mysterious FT calculated no none knows, we just sigh in hopelessness

 and pay...

Edited April 20, 2017 by ezzra

[tracker1]

More reason for more people to pinch electricity which no doubt will cause more deaths !

 

[mahjongguy]

" The FT rate has been adjusted from -24.77 to -37.29 "

 

No, it's been adjusted from -37.29 to -24.77, which is an increase.

[AhFarangJa]

Call me a cynic, but who here believes it will drop again in September.....Fat chance.......

[Thaiwine]

I wondered how much electric cost

 

"The change will mean the average cost of a unit of electricity will be 3.5079 per unit from May to August."

 

hmmm the g/f is charged 10 baht per unit,

[robblok]

6 minutes ago, Thaiwine said:

I wondered how much electric cost

 

"The change will mean the average cost of a unit of electricity will be 3.5079 per unit from May to August."

 

hmmm the g/f is charged 10 baht per unit,

Then she is in a cheap condo.. they people renting it out often charge crazy prices for electricity . She is not connected directly and does not get a bill in her name from the electric company.

[Thaiwine]

2 minutes ago, robblok said:

Then she is in a cheap condo.. they people renting it out often charge crazy prices for electricity . She is not connected directly and does not get a bill in her name from the electric company.

yes she pays the landlord direct,

10 baht per unit electric and 40 per unit for water,

[jollyhangmon]

1 hour ago, mahjongguy said:

" The FT rate has been adjusted from -24.77 to -37.29 "

 

No, it's been adjusted from -37.29 to -24.77, which is an increase.

Exactly, sir.

Well, it's not that easy to express fractions using the fingers ... let alone negative ones ...  

 

13 minutes ago, Thaiwine said:

I wondered how much electric cost

 

"The change will mean the average cost of a unit of electricity will be 3.5079 per unit from May to August."

 

hmmm the g/f is charged 10 baht per unit,

= common practice among these scammers, yes, she pays around 3 times her actual bill ... 

[robblok]

Just now, Thaiwine said:

yes she pays the landlord direct,

10 baht per unit electric and 40 per unit for water,

 

Happens quite often.. lured in by a cheap (usually not always) rent.. and then made to pay more because of the utilities. Depending on usage it can work out cheaper, but more often then not it does not work out cheaper.

[jollyhangmon]

6 minutes ago, Thaiwine said:

yes she pays the landlord direct,

10 baht per unit electric and 40 per unit for water,

Price for water shows fairly big regional differences - i mean the real price as on the bills - so hard to figure that out ... 40.- per cubic-meter is certainly too high tough ... who would've thought that knowing their bogus electric - charges ;-) 

 

Just for comparison: last bill 33 cubic = 584.- THB all in ...  aka. 17.70 THB per! 

 

Edited April 21, 2017 by jollyhangmon