Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has announced that the government is intensifying its efforts to find new sources of different energy in response to complaints about rising electricity payments in the course of the summer season months.
His statement comes in reaction to social media outrage and requires the federal government to take additional steps to scale back people’s vitality expenses. He said…
“It is essential to examine why bills are rising. The concern is complex, involving production prices and management. We will explore potential actions. Rest assured, I will personally oversee the matter.”
He added that electricity rates are connected to long-standing enterprise operations and contractual commitments.
“However, the government will endeavour to ensure nobody is deprived.”
He further said that the government has been making an attempt to establish and promote extra reasonably priced power sources, similar to renewable power, and encourage native communities and households to utilise photo voltaic cells to seize daylight and convert it into electricity.
“We should also consider the vitality prices and petrol costs in different nations. But Myths shouldn’t compare ours with international locations that possess their energy sources.
“Thailand is still required to purchase power from overseas due to the declining home natural gas supply in the Gulf of Thailand. We must import vitality from Myanmar or Malaysia.
“Therefore, it’s essential to accentuate our efforts to discover different power sources. This might not happen instantly, but we are making vital progress.”
Social media customers have posted pictures of their costly payments, with one Facebook consumer sharing that in April of final yr, he was infected with Covid-19 and self-isolated at residence for sixteen days, utilizing two air-conditioners alternately. His electricity invoice for that month was 1,348 baht. The PM said…
“However, this April, I used electricity as per ordinary and took 5 days off in the course of the Songkran holiday, however the power bill was 2,060 baht.”
The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) recently decided to implement a single electrical energy bill price from May to August.
This new rate will make electricity bills more inexpensive for companies but more expensive for households and might be notably unwelcome information amidst the scorching heat of the summer season.
Under the new fee, 4.seventy seven baht per kilowatt-hour will now be charged, which is lower than the current rate corporations pay from January to April at 5.33 baht per unit, but a rise from 4.72 baht per unit for households.
The ERC performed on-line surveys between March 10–20 in assist of this choice.
However, the transfer has confronted vital criticism for favouring the commercial sector, because the revised charges will enable businesses to save tons of 10% on their payments whereas households will experience a 1% enhance in electricity charges, according to observers.
The rise of the “fuel adjustment tariff,” or Ft, by 5% through the May-August interval, is the first issue. At the identical time, the Ft associated to power use by the industry is anticipated to lower by 30%.
The authorities and ERC have justified the higher Ft rate for households from May to August, stating they’ve already supplied a 3.2-billion-baht subsidy for weak teams, similar to low-income earners and households consuming less than 300 units.
Mere , a member of the Palang Pracharath Party’s technique committee, stated the committee agreed with a campaign promise to cut back the speed to 2.50 baht per unit for households and a pair of.70 baht for the commercial sector by revising concession contracts for pure fuel production within the Gulf of Thailand.
Sirikanya Tansakun, deputy leader of the Move Forward Party, acknowledged that the party would minimize energy bills by 70 satang per unit by utilising the mechanisms of the ERC. It would also enable shoppers to shop around and purchase from different suppliers, not simply Egat..