regardless whether the account for the supply is registered under the owner's or the tenant's name, based on TNB's current practice (whether official or not), they will not allow a new account for supply to be registered.

this effectively puts their right of action in rem rather than in personam. while you can avoid picking up unnecessary personal liabilities but it is not practical (at least from the business standpoint). what irked me is that i myself tried multiple times to get TNB to terminate/suspend the supply but yet, it fell on deaf ears.

this form of application is open to abuse and seems to favor TNB only and not their customers.

take for example, TNB could have easily allowed errant users (irrespective under tenant's or owner's name) to rake up the outstanding because at the end of the day, they know someone will pay (and that someone is the owner) so rather than terminating/suspend the supply (which will result in lower revenue), they happily allow it to continue.

this seems, illogical.