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I live in Malaysia. Electricity is not very cheap once you go above 300 kWh. The current tiers (at least on my most recent monthly bill) are as follows: - RM 0
by OnlyLys 5y ago
I live in Malaysia. Electricity is not very cheap once you go above 300 kWh. The current tiers (at least on my most recent monthly bill) are as follows:
- RM 0.218 (USD 0.052) per kWh for the first 200kWh
- RM 0.334 (USD 0.079) per kWh for the next 100kWh
- RM 0.516 (USD 0.120) per kWh for the 300kWh after
Those prices are before the 1.6% tax by the government. And furthermore, any usage above 600kWh is taxed an additional 6% by the energy company.
- ericd 5y agoThanks for the context! I thought the numbers on Wikipedia were a bit weird, looks like they were in US cents.
- BelenusMordred 5y agoLive in Malaysia too and am always astounded how much power people use here, they seem very wasteful with aircon. Generally average about 250kwh per month for 2 people in a 1200 sqf apartment with occasional aircon use. Paying ~6c/kwh is much better than nearly everywhere else on Earth. As a westerner in the country it's basically a rounding error compared to other life costs. With government bonuses that get thrown around the cost really isn't much unless you are incredibly wasteful or have a huge family/house. Most of the country has gotten big power handouts for covid. I paid 30 RM ($7.50 USD) a few months ago. A pint down the pub costs nearly that.