This should be of interest to plug-in hybrid owners – Tenaga Nasional has initiated a pilot programme that will charge users for their electricity based on peak and off-peak rates. The TNB SmartSaver Time of Use (TOU) pilot programme, which kicked off in May, will run for six months until October.
Available to customers who have had TNB smart meters installed in their premises before 2017, the programme’s objective is to study the customer behaviour of low voltage ordinary power consumers. During the trial period, customers will be able to enjoy a rebate in monthly bills when they reduce peak hour electricity usage and shift their consumption to mid-peak and off-peak hours.
During the trial period, customers under the pilot programme will continue to receive and pay their normal bills, with a SmartSaver TOU statement provided the following month to inform them of any eligible rebates – any rebates will then be included as an offset in the customer’s next electricity bill.
The TOU SmartSaver has rebates as well as a peak reduction reward for eligible customers, and rebates are computed based on different tariff rates, at different times of the day, with rates off-peak naturally lower than during a mid-peak period, and so on.
If the aggregated costs show a negative value, a customer receives a rebate to this value. If it’s positive, there’s no rebate but no extra charges. As for the peak reduction reward, customers stand to get a RM16 monthly reward if they reduce peak usage usage by at least five percent or mid-peak usage also by at least five percent and refrain from any increase in peak period usage compared to before the pilot programme.
Peak periods are from 11 am-5 pm on weekdays, while mid-peak periods are from 8 am-11 am and 5 pm-10 pm on weekdays. On weekdays, the off-peak period runs from 10 pm-8 am daily, and weekends (as well as public holidays) are defined as off-peak right through.
The timing should be convenient for plug-in hybrid (and EV) users if overnight charging practices are adhered to, and weekends should also prove to be a boon. How much this will translate to in terms of overall savings with a PHEV remains to be seen, of course.
The peak/off-peak rate trials comes at a time when the country’s regulatory body for the electricity supply industry, the Energy Commission (EC), says that Malaysians should brace for a possible imposition of a surcharge, according to a Bernama report. Last week, the EC said that the public needs to be prepared for the inevitable and use electricity prudently.
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Our TNB new meters run double fast compared to older analogue meters. Until TNB be honest about this, EV car industry will never take off.
All households, after changing to the new digital meter, their bills doubled overnight.
How to buy EV car like this?
When come to calculation on Petrol price need 3 years or 5 years to announce new formula…
Under plug-in hybrid (and EV), Not even fully utilize BN start to make NEW formula…
BN help Rakyat ?!?! or When will ever Rakyat wakeup !!!
Peak and off peak? This is tenaga contribution to green EV car?
Is there any grant offered by the gov to EV project as everyone is jumping on this bandwagon although their business have nothing to do with EV.
It is not about EV. Read and you understand. It’s just said that you will saving some when charging your car during off peak hours.
Yeah.. you need to announce a pilot programme just to implement peak and off peak billing.
Yes they do. Becoz it will involve a holistic changing of TNB rates calculation because the calculation it difference. It’s millions of customer. So why need to risk all customer while just can control the risk by pilot program?
Weekends nobody is home !??
Weekend less people in the office/work place which use high electric power. It’s not your house alone that use electricity.
In actual fact, our Tenaga rates are not suitable for EV or PHEV cause our TNB rates are too exorbitant.
Why EV and PHEV is doing well overseas is very simple. Rates in overseas is far cheaper.
Look at below and you will understand.
5 years ago, my company sent me on attachment to the UK. I went to UK with my whole family and we lived in a big house. Every month, my electric bill was maximum 20 pounds per month.
Now I am back in Malaysia with my family, our electric bill is RM500 per month.
So, this is why our EV and PHEV will never do well. Might as well use petrol than to use TNB exorbitant rates despite it having a non peak programme.
Dun high keras. Ur Ulu Kelang showroom was still in Malaysia. Reason why ur bill then not high is cuz u use only 1 mentol in whole opis. Business takde mah!
Now u share opis with samysloo, so of cuz need more electric which leads to higher bills.
still talking rubbish John?
Nope. Rubbish is from from ur side.
Man I can’t decide who is right anymore. Sometimes KK sometimes john. Whoever in the shadows that is controlling them, syabas. The seed of confusion of planted. #fakenews
Ha ha. If 20kwh of charging a plug in EV could give you 100km travelling distance and the TNB off peak cost is RM6 ringgit for this 20kwh charge then cost per km is only 6 cents per km. A best petrol engine car give about 20km per liter or about 10 cent per km.
Don’t blame TNB. Blame the car manufacture becoz they said EV car is good and can run long KM. TNB just supply the power.
And how many kWh did you actually use?
But of course you would not mention that houses in the UK don’t have air conditioning, heater and kitchen uses gas which would easily shoot the total energy bill up to >150 pounds for a big house, even more if the big house is of older build with poor insulation
Of course not to mention houses in the UK doesn’t usually have as many light bulb as in Malaysia as they like it much less bright
I have a house overseas and the energy bill is >EUR 180 per month, and my house in Malaysia with 5 air conds, big freezers and water heater only get charged MYR 100-150 (at most 200 if I have guests) per month of course with prudent usage. As a matter of fact it used to be zero after government rebates (only at house after work and not aircond when sleeping)
About the same as you, 600MYR don’t fakenews
In UK you seldom use aircond. heater use electric or gas?
Are you sure your electricity bill only 20 GBP? that is very cheap. However base on https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/what-german-households-pay-power, normal UK household electricity consumption is 800 EUR per year which makes around 66 EUR per month. This does not include gas for heater.
Maybe there are subsidy in your case. As I remembered, during my study in Germany, I pay more than 20 EUR for electricity (10 years ago and single).
Yay, no more hesitation to sleep with aircond whole night
Sure it’s not maintain price for off peak and increase for peak?
If I don’t have the smart meter installed, how do I get it done and at what cost? Will there be a continuation of this program after October 2017? If it’s temporary only then no point installing smart meter. Only 3 months left anyway. So many questions to answer.
I would have thought that night time is peak cos that’s when almost everyone is home. And daytime on weekdays is off-peak. Anyways, not complaining. Just means at night can switch on AC the whole night (timer switching off at 8am). How does one get this smart meter installed? Or is it decided by TNB during this trial period?
That assumption is not true. At night, not everyone uses aircon unlike opis during daytime. 24hr operations companies oso wun run full force during night as they do during daytime. Somemore, daytime aircon suck more power compared to night. So it makes sense for peak period during daytime.
Agree. Restaurants, factories and many other outlets are closed. Lower power demand
Some people tot only housing area use electric. Forgot about their office/workplace/industries becoz they are not the one who paid the bill.
I smell lots of bullsh** in the programme, as usual.
Besides, our EV programme is so malu…..and may take off in year 2999…..when other countries already have flying cars….
Tesla is alredi in MY. Pls read more instead of just dropping in to bash.
A Tesla without autopilot and supercharging network is not a Tesla.
John……you are so on the wrong topic. haih…..