Singapore power sockets are 220 - 240 volts AC, 50 cycles per second.
Power plugs used are three-pin, square-shaped ones.
SP Services Ltd provides water, electricity and piped gas to all
households and business premises in Singapore. Opening of accounts for
such supplies can be made:
An
initial deposit is applicable upon opening a utilities
account.
For
Singaporeans/Permanent Residents
Type
of Premises
Deposit
for Giro customers
Deposit
for non-Giro customers
HDB 1 or
2 rooms
S$40
S$60
HDB 3,
4, or 5 rooms
S$70
S$100
HUDC/Terrace
S$100
S$150
Private
apartments / Semi-detached houses
S$150
S$250
Bungalow
S$250
S$400
*Applicable
to customers who submit their completed Giro
application form upon opening the utility account
Security
Deposit for Non-Singaporean and Non-Permanent resident
with work permit is subjected to a different amount for
residential accounts.
For
Non-Singaporeans/Non-Permanent Residents
Type
of Premises
Deposit
for Giro customers
Deposit
for non-Giro customers
HDB 1 or
2 rooms
S$80
S$120
HDB 3,
4, or 5 rooms
S$140
S$200
HUDC/Terrace
S$200
S$300
Private
apartments / Semi-detached houses
S$300
S$500
Bungalow
S$500
S$800
*Applicable
to customers who submit their completed Giro
application form upon opening the utility account
You may
request for the security deposit to be billed into your
account and reflect in your first bill. Alternatively, if
you are submitting your deposit via cheque, please make
cheque payable to SP Services Ltd and indicate your name,
NRIC & premises address at the back of the cheque.
Cash and NETS are also accepted at our customer services
centres.
Tariffs for electricity
Singapore's voltage
is 220-240 volts AC, 50 cycles per second.
Charge levied for domestic
electricity consumption is 16.35 cents/kWh from 1 Jul 2004.
Tariffs for gas
Charge levied for
domestic gas consumption is 15.23 cents/unit (flat rate) with
effect from 1 Dec 2000.
Many households use
LPG gas stored in cylinders. You may purchase such gas by first placing
a deposit for the cylinder with any of the following:
Above 40 cubic metres per month S$1.40
Conservation Tax: 45%
NON-DOMESTIC: All
units
S$1.17 Conservation Tax: 30%
Water borne fee is
charged at S$0.30 per cubic metre
3% GST (Goods &
Services Tax) is payable on all charges and taxes less waterborne fee,
sanitary appliance fee and late payment charges which are not subject to
GST.
If no payment is received after a reminder, a 1% late payment charge is
imposed on any outstanding balance in the next bill.
Excerpt
of a letter dated 20 Mar 2000 by Mr Wong Fook Hung, Managing Director
Power Supply Ltd, to The Straits Times Forum Page.
Power Supply is the public electricity supplier as well as a
billing and collection agent.
Apart from charges for electricity, water and gas, Power
Supply also bills and collects the water-conservation tax,
waterborne fee, sanitary-appliance fees and refuse-collection
fees.
The water-conservation tax is meant to discourage wastage and
drive home the point that water is a precious and strategic
resource in Singapore.
For households, it is tiered at different tax rates according
to volume of usage. The waterborne fee is for treatment of waste
water and is charged on the volume of water used. The utilities
deposit is required as a security against non-payment and is
equal to 1½ times the average monthly bill or one month's bill
for domestic customers on GIRO.
Instead of deposits, some service providers collect advance
payments to mitigate the risk of non-payment. The deposit
collected by Power Supply is on behalf of three utility service
providers, namely PUB, PowerGas and itself. All three parties
need to incur costs in advance to produce or purchase the supply
before customers are even billed and payments collected for the
utilities consumed by them. An example is payments for daily
purchases from the Singapore Electricity Pool which are made
nine days after each purchase. On the other hand, customers are
billed monthly for utilities already consumed and payments are
due only two weeks after billing.
Power Supply's electricity business is regulated. Its
earnings are determined through a formula based on its operating
costs. If Power Supply were to pay interest on deposits, then
the interest paid plus administrative costs would increase the
operating expenditure. This would add costs and customers would
not have any real benefit as it would result in higher
tariffs.
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