{"id":597,"date":"2011-05-30T17:36:25","date_gmt":"2011-05-30T09:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nbc.com.my\/blog\/?p=597"},"modified":"2024-11-01T11:29:43","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T03:29:43","slug":"malaysian-electricity-rate-rise-average-7-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nbc.com.my\/blog\/malaysian-electricity-rate-rise-average-7-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaysian electricity rate to rise average 7.12%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbc.com.my\/blog\/malaysian-electricity-rate-rise-average-7-12\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1547\" title=\"nbc-tnb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nbc.com.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/nbc-tnb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"153\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nbc.com.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/nbc-tnb.jpg 267w, https:\/\/www.nbc.com.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/nbc-tnb-105x74.jpg 105w, https:\/\/www.nbc.com.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/nbc-tnb-141x100.jpg 141w, https:\/\/www.nbc.com.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/nbc-tnb-24x16.jpg 24w, https:\/\/www.nbc.com.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/nbc-tnb-36x25.jpg 36w, https:\/\/www.nbc.com.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/nbc-tnb-48x33.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/><\/a>The Malaysian government announced that the eletricity power prices will increase by 2.23 sen kilowatt per hour (kWh) or 7.12 percent to 33.54 kWh, with effect from 1 June 2011, in a move to cut nation high level of subsidies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Natural gas prices will also up by RM3.00 per mmBtu each six months until it reached market levels. <!--more--><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Bernama reported that the increase will not affect 75% of Malaysians as most of people consume less than 300 kWh per month. However, the details of increase is not available. It could the case that the higher the usage, the higher the rates increase. Low usage would normally not seriously affected. It is in a way to help the low income group.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Increase in electricity rates is inevitable to pass on to end users, due to the rising and high raw materials costs and energy prices paid by Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB).<\/span><\/p>\n<table style=\"text-align: left; line-height: normal; border-collapse: collapse;\" width=\"434\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<colgroup>\n<col style=\"width: 326pt; mso-width-source: userset; mso-width-alt: 15872;\" width=\"434\" \/><\/colgroup>\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 12.75pt;\">\n<td class=\"xl24\" style=\"padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; vertical-align: bottom; padding-top: 1px; text-align: left;\" width=\"434\" height=\"17\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Related post:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 12.75pt;\">\n<td class=\"xl25\" style=\"padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; vertical-align: bottom; padding-top: 1px; text-align: left;\" width=\"434\" height=\"17\"><span style=\"text-align: justify; widows: 2; orphans: 2; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\"><a style=\"text-align: justify;\" title=\"Link to How much is the new electricity rate impact you\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbc.com.my\/blog\/?p=666\" rel=\"bookmark\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">How much is the new electricity rate impact you?<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Malaysian government announced that the eletricity power prices will increase by 2.23 sen kilowatt per hour (kWh) or 7.12 percent to 33.54 kWh, with effect from 1 June 2011, in a move to cut nation high level of subsidies. Natural gas prices will also up by RM3.00 per mmBtu each six months until it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[70],"class_list":["post-597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malaysia-news","tag-electricity-rate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbc.com.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbc.com.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbc.com.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbc.com.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbc.com.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbc.com.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6695,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbc.com.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions\/6695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbc.com.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbc.com.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbc.com.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}