Condo carpark electricity for JMB / MC

A Klang Valley JMB or MC usually sees one common-area electricity bill. Carpark lighting sits inside that bill with lifts, pumps, and other loads. Up to about 20% is the public estimate for the lighting-related slice of a typical residential condo. It is not 20% off the whole invoice, and it is not a quotation.

Is 20% the whole condo electricity bill?

No. The common-area account pays for more than the carpark fittings. A committee that writes “20% off the TNB bill” on a slide has changed the meaning. The band is only the lighting-related part: the energy those fittings draw, not the lifts and not the pumps.

That is why two buildings with the same headline bill can still be different jobs. One may be lighting-heavy overnight. Another may be moved by pumps or tariff. The bill total does not tell you which.

What are the public bands?

These are Anyi Smart public assessment bands. Carpark Light is a distributor of Anyi Smart. They are a starting range for a typical building of that type in the Klang Valley, after someone has looked at the lighting load. They are not VGPA and not a guarantee.

Office and mall patterns are written out in office and mall carpark lighting bands. Do not paste the condo row onto an office or a mall.

How should a committee read a monthly RM figure?

If you already have a recent lighting or common-area figure, we use it as a sense-check: the band times that RM, then a lower-bill illustration. If you only know the bay count, send the assessment anyway. We will not invent an RM savings line from bay count alone.

A higher bill on a later month can be tariff, usage mix, or both. The numbers on our assessment page are a composite example, not a named customer, and not your building unless the figures happen to match. How to separate the lines is in how to read a common-area electricity bill. A figure you already have can also go through the bill sense-check. It applies a public band only to a lighting-related RM. How the fittings dim is on the solution page.

What sits outside the percentage?

• Lift energy, including nights when the carpark is quiet.
• Pumps and other plant that share the common-area account.
• A tariff change that lifts the same usage.
• Lamp-replacement rounds. Those are maintenance. They are not the same as dimming an empty aisle. See sensors, timers, or an LED retrofit.

Why overnight hours matter on a condo deck

Basement and covered condo decks have little daylight, so the fittings are often at full output long after the last car has parked. That pattern is overnight carpark lighting wastage. It still does not turn the lighting band into a whole-building cut. Empty hours are where occupancy-aware dimming is aimed. A usable baseline stays on. The deck is not switched off.

How do you apply the band without inventing a building?

Use arithmetic on a figure you already have, and label what that figure is. If the lighting-related portion is about RM 10,000 in a month, up to about 20% of that portion is about RM 2,000. That illustration is not a customer, not your building, and not a quotation. It only shows where the percentage sits.

If the only figure you have is a RM 10,000 common-area total, you must not write RM 2,000. The band was never applied to the whole invoice. Lifts and pumps are still inside that RM 10,000. Dividing the total by five and calling the result “lighting” is a guess. Send the total labelled as a total. A site survey is what splits it.

What does “a typical condo” mean?

It means a residential strata building in the Klang Valley whose carpark lighting behaves like the public assessment band: covered decks, long hours at full output, and a lighting slice that can move when empty aisles dim. It does not mean every condo, every podium, or a building that is mostly office or mall underneath the homes.

“Up to about” is part of the sentence. A deck that is already dimming empty bays, or a deck that is full for more of the night, should not be given the top of the band in a meeting note. The top is not a target to type in before anyone has walked the site.

What should you ask before 20% goes into the minutes?

• Is the percentage on lighting-related electricity, or on the whole bill?
• Is the building a condo, or has someone borrowed the condo row for an office or a mall?
• Is the RM a recent lighting or common-area figure, or a bay count someone has turned into money?
• Has anyone seen the deck, or is the number still the public band only?

If the answer to the last question is no, the honest minute is: public band, lighting-related, estimate only, site survey required. That is the sentence this site will stand behind. We will not add a second sentence that names a saving for a building we have not seen.

What a committee can do next

Bring the building name, a person we can reply to, and either a recent lighting or common-area figure or a bay count. The list is what a JMB should bring to an assessment. We reply from info@carparklight.com. A preferred visit date on the form is not a booked slot. There is no shopfront street address on this site. A site survey is required before any number is treated as a proposal.