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Before the country will be barreled anew by super typhoons or stricken by other disasters, the National Electrification Administration (NEA) has mandated the country’s electric cooperatives (ECs) to submit their respective contingency plans as well as emergency response strategies as part of...

Government-run National Electrification Administration (NEA) got an allocation of P1.8 billion budget only for its electrification mandate, enormously falling short of the P18 billion funding needed to fully meet the nationwide energization of all households until June next year as promised by the...

An additional P550 million allocation had been proposed in the P4.506 trillion budget of the Philippine government, so extra financial resources can be funneled into the repair of power lines damaged by calamities. Senate Committee on Energy Chairman Sherwin T. Gatchalian had pushed for that cash...

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...