Starting today, consumers in the peninsular will have to pay more for electricity, that is if they use more than 200 kilowatt hour (kWh) per month.

Average users will have to pay around RM5-8 more

My average monthly bill is around RM70 a month under the old tariff of 21.8 sen per kWh and subsequent 28.9 sen per kWh unit. My household is using about 290 kWh per month.

Under the new tariff, I will have to pay about RM75 a month for the same amount of usage.

One little piece of good news, is that there will be no change to the rate for the first 200 kWh of usage.

The bad news is the charge per kWh unit will now be increase to 30 for the subsequent usage between 201-400 kWh.

Calculate your headache

Below is a rough estimate of our headaches, sourced from Tenaga Nasional Bhd website, assuming there are no drastic changes in the way we consume electricity.

Electricity Bill Estimate

Which category of users are you? If you are in the low-kWh type of users, the tariff increase won’t be too hard to take, especially if you are in Selangor because you now get to enjoy a free water amounting to 20 cubic metres a month or an equivalent of RM11.40.

Here is a screenshot, also from Tenaga Nasional website, of the new tariffs.

Electricity Tariff

Too bad I don’t have the old ones. It would be good to make a comparison.

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