The topic of the talk of the town that is being talked about as a long series in this hot summer season is about the extremely expensive electricity bill.

happened to be here

Just in time for 66 election campaign season, it became a big deal.

where the villagers came out to show the expensive cost of electricity

through social media to become a fashion

Anyone who doesn't post an electric bill is considered outdated to some extent.

The aforementioned flows are in line with

Political campaign policies that want to win the popular vote from the people.

Competing to reduce electricity bills

cooking gas cost

Do it, even water bills will ask to increase the price as well, claiming that the price has not been raised for 23 years. It is considered a real uptrend.

Political party policies, for example, will reduce the cost of electricity from 4.77 satang per unit to only 2.50 satang per unit.

Until the size of dismantling the entire new electricity bill calculation system

Proposed to cancel the FT or Automatic Variable Electricity Charge.

Claims to reduce the electricity bill by 1.50 baht.

Proposing a policy to reduce electricity bills is easy.

But the implementation is difficult. Just take the FT cost for one thing. There will be many problems, including cost calculation from the transmission line cost.

money to support

renewable energy

Including paying back debt

EGAT used cash to compensate electricity bills for people in the past hundreds of billions of baht.

The thing to consider the most is

cost of electricity generation

There are some political parties who quite understand the process of generating electricity.

For example, Pheu Thai Party

Which is popular from the survey of the polling office to be number one.

There is a clear policy to reduce electricity bills, depending on production costs.

Especially the cost of fuel used in electricity generation.

Our home uses gas as the main source of electricity, more than 60 percent, and a greater proportion is imported from abroad than we can produce ourselves.

In the current state of the problem.

energy crisis

Lowering the price of electricity to 1-2 baht per unit is difficult if we are unable to sufficiently use domestically extracted gas resources.

We have to use gas from abroad that is in accordance with the world market price mechanism.

This causes the cost of electricity generation to fluctuate and the cost is much higher.

In addition, this year's summer is unusually hot.

Consequently, more electricity is used as well, resulting in household electricity usage exceeding 300 units, which is a condition for reducing electricity bills.

causing the electricity bill to return to normal

together with the charge of electricity

is a progressive rate

The more power you use

The cost of electricity will be more expensive.

According to the principle of incentivizing people to help save energy that is used around the world.

The ERC clarified that the cost of electricity production in May-August will be at 2.74 baht per unit as the price of imported gas has increased.

Therefore, criticizing or expressing opinions or proposing policies on electricity bills

Therefore, it must adhere to the truth and present information in all aspects.

You should not say good things to yourself, bad things to other people.

because it is a public policy

to be jointly responsible for all parties

iron fist


mudlek@thairath.co.th