Hard-pressed households looking forward to electricity price reductions instead this week were confronted with startling increases in bills well beyond the seasonal rise in demand or even what might be expected from the Covid 19 emergency lockdown. Minister of Energy Sontirat Sonthichirawong is treating the reports seriously and is investigating. It comes as the Thai cabinet is expected to approve a series of discounts to be backdated to March and to run until May. A proposed scheme for a free mobile service across network providers in May is also being mooted but it will exclude foreigners living in Thailand.
