Electric prices in Thailand

soicowboy22

Staying in a relative's house in Bangkok the monthly bill was only £25 with air con running day and night [not cooking] interested why it's so cheaper there?

macman

No heating or hot water?

forgotmyname

£25 a month is a lot when your earning less than £150 a month.

Nada666

A baht is about tuppence. A kWh of electricity costs about 5 baht. 10p per kWh.

If you are only paying £25 you are only using less than 250 kWh per month or 8 kWh per day.

Compared to their salary it is shocking the cost is so high.

soicowboy22

forgotmyname wrote: »

£25 a month is a lot when your earning less than £150 a month.

True but air con costs so do electric showers,

Nada666

I wonder how Ofgem would react to a tariff structure like this:

Electricity Normal Rate (Residential)     Energy Charge (per kWh)
                                  Baht    $       
First  5 kWh (0 – 5th)             0     0
Next  10 kWh (6th – 15th)      1.8632     0.06
Next  10 kWh (16th – 25th)     2.5026     0.08
Next  10 kWh (26th – 35th)     2.7549     0.09
Next  65 kWh (36th – 100th)    3.1381     0.10
Next  50 kWh (101st – 150th)   3.2315     0.11
Next 250 kWh (151st – 400th)  3.7362     0.12
Over 400 kWh (401st – up)        3.9361  0.13

imho

I stay in India in a apartment with Ac,washing machine,electric shower, electric fans. electric oven and electric bill was £25 for five months.Didnt have Ac on much but washing machine was on a few times a day.

macman

It's a meaningless comparison unless you can tell us how many kWh's that £25 represents. And even then it would be necessary to adjust for average incomes etc.
The only real comparison is to know what proportion of the average income is spent on energy in each country.