Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNB) announced that the Malaysian government will determine electricity tariff rates and the tariff structure for the regulatory period 2025-2027 (RP4) by mid-2025. The base tariff rate is expected to increase by 14 percent, reaching 45.62 sen per kilowatt hour, driven by rising coal and LNG prices. However, the government aims to protect consumers, with rates for approximately 85 percent of households likely remaining unchanged.
Tenaga Nasional Bhd announced that the government will determine electricity tariff rates and the tariff structure for the regulatory period 2025-2027 by mid-2025. — Picture by Yusof Mat Isaas a first-time user . Exclusively for Malay Mail readers: Use codeKUALA LUMPUR, Dec 27 — Tenaga Nasional Bhd announced that the government will determine electricity tariff rates and the tariff structure for the regulatory period 2025-2027 by mid-2025.
“The government wants to protect consumers and the electricity tariff rate for about 85 per cent of households will likely remain unchanged over the RP4 period,” Datuk Nazmi Othman, chief financial officer at TNB was quoted as saying in a media event today. Approximately 70 per cent of the base tariff rate is linked to generation activity in the power sector, which is influenced by the prices of fuel feedstocks like coal and LNG. Currently, more than 50 per cent of the country’s generation capacity relies on coal, with around 20 per cent depending on LNG, as reported byIn its announcement on Thursday, TNB revealed that the approved capital expenditure for RP4 totals RM42.821 billion, which consists of RM26.554 billion in base capex and RM16.
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