Households urged to install solar panels, sell power back to MEA
The Metropolitan Electricity Authority (MEA) is inviting households in Bangkok, Nonthaburi and Samut Prakan to install solar panels on their roofs to generate electricity for personal use or to sell back to the MEA.
“Users who wish to install solar panels for personal use should integrate their solar generators into MEA’s power grid, and the MEA will send out technicians to ensure their equipment is safe and the current is stable,” MEA public relations director Phasuk Sampunnachote said. Interested users can study the MEA’s power integration guidelines and register at https://www.mea.or.th/minisite/vspp/about/846 with no deadline.
“MEA has also created the Community Solar Power programme, which is available to type 1 customers [residential users] who installed solar panels for domestic use and have left over electricity to sell,” she added. “MEA will buy the electricity from users at Bt1.68 per unit, under a 10-year contract. Applicants can register at the website https://spv.mea.or.th before December 2020.”
For more information customers can contact the MEA at its call centre on 1130, via Twitter at @MEA_news, Line at @meathailand, and Facebook การไฟฟ้านครหลวง MEA.
