Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) has acknowledged that the Computerized Gasoline Adjustment (AFA) price for the month of January 2026 is -4.99 sen/kWh from -6.42 sen/kWh in December 2025. The AFA, which is about by the Power Fee (ST), replaces the earlier Imbalance Price Go-By means of (ICPT) and is robotically calculated as both a surcharge or low cost of as much as 3 sen/kWh relying on gasoline costs – that is revised month-to-month, with any bigger adjustments (past 3 sen) requiring cupboard approval.
Launched as a part of TNB’s Electrical energy Tariff Restructuring that took impact from July 1, 2025, the AFA is considered one of 5 elements or “prices” used to calculate your electrical energy invoice. Right here’s the overview:
- Era cost: 27.03 sen/kWh for whole consumption of 1,500 kWh and beneath per thirty days or 37.03 sen/kWh for whole consumption greater than 1,500 kWh per thirty days. This covers the precise value of producing electrical energy from energy vegetation.
- Capability cost: 4.55 sen/kWh. This covers the price of sustaining adequate electrical energy provide capability.
- Community cost: 12.85 sen/kWh. This covers the price of working and sustaining the grid and the native community to ship electrical energy.
- Retail cost: RM10/month; waived for whole consumption of 600 kWh and beneath a month. It is a mounted value for metering, billing and customer support.
- AFA price: -4.99 sen for the month of January 2026; waived for whole consumption of 600 kWh and beneath a month.
You should use our TNB Invoice Calculator instrument to get a tough estimate on how a lot your electrical energy invoice will likely be for the month. Primarily, if you happen to use over 1,500 kWh a month, you add the technology, capability and community prices (totalling 54.43 sen/kWh) to retail cost (RM10) and the AFA price (-4.99 sen/kWh low cost for January 2026).
Alternatively, in case your utilization is beneath 1,500 kWh a month, it’s 44.43 sen/kWh plus the retail cost and AFA price. For whole consumption of 600 kWh and beneath a month, it will solely be 44.43 sen/kWh – retail and AFA prices are waived.
Right here’s an inventory of the month-to-month AFA charges to date:
- July 2025: 0.00 sen/kWh
- August 2025: -1.45 sen/kWh
- September 2025: -1.10 sen/kWh
- October 2025: -6.50 sen/kWh
- November 2025: -8.91 sen/kWh
- December 2025: -6.42 sen/kWh
- January 2026: -4.99 sen/kWh
Home shoppers who use lower than 1,000 kWh a month can take pleasure in a reduction known as ‘Insentif Cekap Tenaga’ or ‘Power Effectivity Incentive’. The low cost supplied is relative to consumption (the extra the utilization, the lesser the motivation), with the utmost low cost being 25 sen/kWh.
Home customers which have sensible meters even have choice to enter the Time of Use (ToU) scheme, permitting them to alter their electrical energy utilization sample and benefit from decrease tariff price throughout off-peak hours to take pleasure in financial savings on their month-to-month invoice.
The scheme has two time zones, with off-peak timings being from 10pm to 2pm from Monday to Friday and all through the day (24 hours) for weekends. Peak hours are from 2pm to 10pm on weekdays. Listed here are the vitality prices below this scheme:
For utilization of 1,500 kWh and beneath per thirty days
- Peak tariff: 28.52 sen per kWh
- Off-peak tariff: 24.43 sen per kWh
For utilization above 1,500 kWh per thirty days
- Peak tariff: 38.52 sen per kWh
- Off-peak tariff: 34.43 sen per kWh
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