State-run Clark Development Corporation (CDC) is ramping up efforts to attract more global investors to the Clark Freeport Zone, starting with strengthening its relationship with Taiwanese firms. CDC President and Chief Executive Officer Agnes VST Devanadera, and 17 Taiwanese companies, alongside...
The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) has extended for another six months its mandate on the suspension of "interest payments" for feed-in-tariff allowance (FIT-All), a rate component in the electric bills being dispatched to consumers. The regulatory body said the non-payment of interest or...
At least eight power generation companies (GenCos) have been formally tagged by the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) for penalties for breaching allowable forced outages in their electric generating facilities, that in turn triggered rotational blackouts and rate spikes last summer. ERC Logo In...
The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) has instituted revisions in the ‘financial capability standards’ that generation companies (GenCos) must comply with, primarily in ensuring their operational viability. The regulatory body stated it comprehended the need to amend and update the...
The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) has approved P13.885 billion worth of refund to Manila Electric Company (Meralco) that will translate to rate reduction of P0.1528 per kilowatt hour (kWh) in their customers’ electricity bills by next month. (MANILA BULLETIN) As mandated by the regulatory...
The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) will be auditing the collection and utilization of the ‘reinvestment fund for sustainable capital expenditures’ (RFSC) of the electric cooperatives (ECs), to assess if these have been in accordance with the prescribed tariff-setting rules. ERC Chairperson...
The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) has junked the bid for feed-in-tariff (FIT) incentive of energy technologies that shall be harnessed from ocean resources, primarily those leaning on ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) applications. Instead, the regulatory boy had directed the National...
Power retail competition expanded More Filipino consumers can already exercise their ‘power of choice’ on their electricity service as the threshold for power retail competition will be brought down to 500 kilowatts by February 2021, based on the prescription of Retail Competition and Open...
Power utility giant Manila Electric Company (Meralco) had been ordered to refund P1.4 billion worth of over-collections on pass-through charges relating to transmission rate; lifeline subsidy rate and senior citizen subsidy rate. Nevertheless, the customers of the utility firm will not fully enjoy...
As power plant outages have been tormenting consumers not just of brownouts but also of electricity rate spikes, the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) has tightened the rules and the benchmark on the allowable service interruptions in electric generating facilities. Energy Regulatory Commission...
The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) has approved and issued 37,817 certificates of compliance (COCs), or the licenses that the qualified industry players would need so they can continually operate their facilities. The issued COCs, according to the industry regulator, were as of September 30...
The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) has cautioned power utilities in typhoon-hit areas that they would still need to comply with prescribed service levels that’s why they cannot afford to be moving too slow in the restoration of electricity service for their customers. Citing prevailing rules...
