Senator Sherwin Gatchalian has filed a bill that seeks to abolish the collection of bill deposits by distribution utilities (DUs) and electric cooperatives (ECs) in a bid to alleviate the burden of residential power consumers reeling from high electricity rates. In filing Senate Bill No. 1470 or...
Distribution firms must set up refund facility -- ERC By Myrna M. Velasco The country’s power distribution utilities (DUs) are being mandated to set up "restricted fund" which they can readily tap into for the implementation of refund to customers. This contingency is in preparation in case a...
The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) has issued cease and desist orders (CDOs) to retail electricity suppliers (RES) so they could be prevented from issuing disconnection notices to the big-ticket customers they serve. A parallel regulatory order has likewise been served to distribution utilities...
The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) is investigating private distribution utilities (DUs) and electric cooperatives (ECs) that have been the subject of complaints for allegedly overpricing pass-on costs to consumers, primarily on generation charges. The commission said they are prioritizing the...
The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) has kicked off review of prevailing power supply agreements (PSAs) between generation companies and the distribution utilities (DUs), primarily the electric cooperatives (ECs), on efforts to bring down electricity rates in the country. The scrutiny on the PSAs...
A record-high 2023 budget has been accorded to the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) to enable the regulatory body to strengthen its mandate to implement a "rate reset" or rate adjustment of regulated power utilities, primarily the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP), as well as...
The distribution utilities (DUs) owned by Aboitiz Power Corporation will be migrating to cloud computing solutions for the build-up of their information technology (IT) infrastructure as a way to further improve their services to customers. The IT platform of their DUs will be moving away from...
Power utilities servicing the Luzon grid still have 2,269 megawatts in available untapped or uncontracted capacities enough to supply power to distribution utilities (DUs) and electric cooperatives (ECs) and ensure customers have electricity even in instances of sudden surge in demand. According to...
The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) has ordered at least two-month leeway on the electric bill payments of consumers in the typhoon-affected areas in Visayas and Mindanao. This order came alongside its call for speedy restoration of electricity services in the affected areas. The power industry...
The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) reported that it already resolved more than 71,900 "bill shock" complaints that electricity end-users experienced at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic or around summertime last year. The ‘bill shock’ stemmed from relatively ‘high electric bills’...
The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) is rigidly scrutinizing the power supply agreements (PSAs) entered into by distribution utilities (DUs) in its bid to strictly disallow ‘overcontracting’ in the electricity supply procurements of regulated power utilities. “Our priorities now, we are...
The aggregate P20-billion refund ordered by the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) and reflected in electric bills had eased consumers’ financial burden while the country wades through the economic hurdles of the pandemic, according to the regulatory agency. The payback mandate to customers since...
