MrComkrit Tantrawanich The Secretary General of the Office of the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) revealed that after the ERC adjusted the Automatic Variable Electricity (FT) figure for January-April. 2023 according to the resolution of the National Energy Policy Council (NEPC) of November 25th. To reduce the impact on the public sector and December 14, the results of the electricity tariff calculation were summarized according to the guidelines. NEPC resulted in the new FT tariff divided into 2 groups.
Consists of 1. Group of residential household electricity users (consume no more than 500 units of electricity per month) will have FT tariff The tariff remains the same at 93.43 satang (Satang) per unit, or calculated as average cost of electricity . (Including the basic electricity rate) at 4.72 baht per unit and 2. Other types of electricity users such as small businesses. medium enterprise Large companies, hotels, industrial establishments Temporary electricity users such as homes, factories Office buildings under construction, the FT will be 190.44 satang per unit, when combined with the basic electricity cost will be 5.69 baht per unit , or an increase of 20.5%.
However, the NEPC resolution dated Nov. 25 set to allocate the natural gas from the natural gas separation plant to electricity consumers for the first-class residential category in an amount that does not increase the electricity tariff burden from the ‘current and PTT Public Company Limited together with the Manufacturing Department of Electricity Authority of Thailand (EGAT) agrees to manage the impact of natural gas prices on electricity bills by appointing PTT to charge natural gas prices for power plants, i independent power producers (IPPs) and EGAT electricity producers. used to estimate the cost of electricity according to the tariff adjustment formula.ft extension From the month NEPC has a resolution onwards, at the same time, PTT also allows PTT to gradually collect the difference between the actual natural gas price and the charged natural gas price in the F-value calculation in the next round according to the following guidelines
1. Ask PTTs to revise natural gas prices in line with NEPC and Ministry of Energy resolutions, such as increasing the use of diesel and fuel oil. from the original use of LNG, 44%, reduced to 38%, including the increase of natural gas from the Gulf of Thailand for electricity generation to 45% from the previous 40%, including the request for PTTs to adjust the Assumption of Spot Imported LNG (Spot LNG) or Benchmark Spot Market Price As a result, the estimated price of Pool Gas or Total Natural Gas Trade decreased from 552 baht per million BTU to 493 baht per million BTUs. By sharing natural gas to be used to generate electricity for homes to live on first at a price of 238 baht per million BTU. and allocate the remainder of the Gulf of Thailand gas plus Myanmar gas and LNG to other natural gas users at a price of 542 baht per million BTU.
2. Let EGAT adjust assumptions about fuel prices. recalculating the FFT using instead Gulf of Thailand natural gas priced at 238 baht per million BTU Replace the original natural gas price with the FT rate for residential clusters and use the remaining natural gas price priced at 542 baht per million BTU million BTUs to charge the FT for other types of electricity users. PD considered the financial burden and accumulated debt of EGAT to gradually repay the outstanding FT debt, where EGAT proposes to mediate the debt amount at August 122,257 million baht The average billing period is 2 years.
Mr. Isaret Rattanadilok Na Phuket, Vice President of the Federation of Industries of Thailand (FTI), said he was quite disappointed with the resolution. ERC strongly because the Private Sector Joint Committee (KorPor.) has already sent out a signal. that if the electricity bill is raised very high like this it will affect the economy of the country. This drives up the costs of operators including hotels, industries, farmers and others and need to offload the burden to consumers, so the CRC will write to the Prime Minister. Asked to review the ERC resolution and set up a working group for both the public and private sectors. Let’s discuss it together as a matter of urgency before starting to collect new electricity bills on 1 January 2023, asking the FT for the monthly payment. Jan. – Apr. 2023 will have to repay debt EGAT must depart before having to pay back 33 satangs per unit to cover the average electricity cost of other parties. except residential It will be reduced to 5.30 baht per unit.
