Some 83,000 electricity consumers will see a minimum monthly increase of RM187, or 25 percent, in their respective electricity bills starting next month.
Natural Resources, Environment, and Climate Change Minister Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad, however, assured the figure accounts for only one percent of total domestic users.
He added that despite the increase, the government was still providing a special subsidy of RM58 million as the Imbalance Cost Pass-Through (ICPT) mechanism had not yet been entirely waived.
Meanwhile, Nik Nazmi said 99 percent of domestic consumers in Peninsular Malaysia with a monthly electricity consumption of 1,500 kWh or below will not experience an increase in their electricity tariff.
He said this when announcing that the government was allocating electricity subsidies amounting to RM5.2 billion from July 1 to December 31 this year.
Non-domestic consumers, such as small and medium enterprises in the low-voltage tariff category and specific agricultural tariffs, will also not experience an increase.
He added that a new category of non-domestic consumers, namely water and sanitation operators, will enjoy a reduction in surcharge rates from 20 sen/kWh to 3.7 sen/kWh.
He said that non-domestic consumers, specifically medium-voltage (MV) and high-voltage (HV) users from the industrial sector, will enjoy a reduction in surcharge rates from 20 sen/kWh to 17 sen/kWh. – Malaysiakini