As an aftermath of severe storm Quinta’s devastation, massive swath in 15 provinces groped in the dark due to power outages caused by damages in various power facilities. According to the Department of Energy, the estimated cost of damage to the power facilities of the electric cooperatives (ECs)...
Anchoring it mainly on the electricity demand slump this year because of the pandemic, power utility giant Manila Electric Company (Meralco) is targeting a leaner core net income of P21 billion this year, which is roughly 10 to 11-percent lower versus last year’s P24 billion scale of...