News about electricity

BATU PAHAT (Dec 7): A 41-year-old computer shop technician here has been slapped with more than RM47,000 worth of unpaid electricity bills and he has no idea how he used up so much power.

KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 12): Pestech International Bhd has bagged a RM38.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 25): Pavilion Real Estate Investment Trust’s (REIT) net property income fell 3.

  The problem of tenants who leave large unpaid electricity bills upon vacating the rental property can be averted by changing the name on the Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNB) account to the name of the tenant for the duration that they rent the property, thus protecting landlords.

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 17): Hong Leong Investment Bank Bhd said today Tenaga Nasional Bhd may face long-term earnings risk related to electricity pricing and take-up rate based on the auction mechanism under Malaysia's proposed 10-year masterplan to reform the power industry.

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 17): The Cabinet has approved a 10-year masterplan to reform the domestic power industry, in which the government will now stop approving new independent power production projects that come with power purchase agreements (PPA).

KUALA LUMPUR (June 29): The Energy Commission (EC) said the Government has agreed to maintain the electricity tariff surcharge at 2.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 7): Thirty-six shop owners are complaining about being presented with extremely high unpaid electricity bills by Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNB).

PETALING JAYA (July 19): Businesses will likely be forced to pass on the burden of higher electricity charges that took effect this month to consumers, said associations representing retailers and malls.

KUALA LUMPUR (July 13): Domestic users are the first priority for Putrajaya, which will utilise RM114 million from the Electricity Industry Fund (KWIE) to subsidise nearly 82% of residential power users in the second half of the year, according to Energy, Technology, Science, Climate Change and Environment minister Yeo Bee Yin (pictured).