The National Electrification Administration (NEA) is rigidly restraining the participation of electric cooperatives (ECs) to events or activities that are beyond their mandate, which is to provide electricity to consumers. This was contained in a memorandum issued on Nov. 22 this year was signed by...
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’...
Government-run National Electrification Administration (NEA) has extended P5.628 billion worth of loans to electric cooperatives (ECs) at the duration of the Duterte administration. According to NEA Administrator Edgardo R. Masongsong, the loans extended to the ECs had been via the agency’s...
The boom-and-bust cycle in the electric power industry will not likely spare the country’s May 9, 2022 elections from rotational blackouts following the Department of Energy's (DOE) pronouncement that power supply within the polling period will be thin. 25581 “For 2022, we see the thinning of...
The power supply crisis in Luzon has been crucifying the customers of electric cooperatives (ECs) who had to suffer rate spikes of up to P1.30 per kilowatt hour (kWh) in their electric bills. That was based on the pronouncement of the Philippine Rural Electric Cooperatives Association Inc....
Given well-anticipated dilemma of recurring power supply shortages, the country’s electric cooperatives (ECs) are being urged to take ‘embedded power generation’ as added recourse to ensure that their services to consumers are not disrupted. This has been the call set out by the National...
The Philippine Electricity Market Corporation (PEMC), which is the governance body overseeing the Wholesale Electricity Spot Market (PEMC), has been ordered to defer the collection of at least P0.20 per kilowatt hour (kWh) adjustment on its net settlement surplus (NSS) charges. The ruling, which...
Despite the torment of the lingering pandemic, the country’s electric cooperatives (ECs) were able to expand their new customers by 10.67 percent in the first quarter this year versus the same period in 2020. Data from the National Electrification Administration (NEA) showed that ECs customers’...
The National Electrification Administration (NEA) is seeking write-off of the consumers’ “worthless receivables”, including those whose records have been destroyed or already impossible to be retrieved. In particular, NEA indicated in an addendum that it is providing clarification to the...
Breach of ‘outage allowance’ The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) had served summons to at least 17 power generation companies (GenCos) “to explain the unplanned outages that breached the maximum allowable unplanned outage days per year.” In a statement to the media, the ERC emphasized...
In spite of the demand slump ignited by the Covid-19 pandemic, the country’s electric cooperatives (ECs) still managed to post 2.0-percent growth in their electricity sales last year, which was quite a feat in such scathing times of a crisis. In data released by the Information Technology and...
The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) is soliciting inputs from industry stakeholders on the targeted modification of the tariff-setting scheme that will be enforced to power distribution utilities on the rates that they will pass on to consumers. The regulatory body is currently reviewing the...
