Following a Supreme Court ruling affirming the rights of electricity consumers on unwarranted service disconnections, the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) stipulated that it will pay attention to the tenets of that verdict on its planned review of the Magna Carta for Residential Electricity...
The timely intervention of the energy investment unit of San Miguel Corporation (SMC) by providing an "emergency power supply" to Albay Electric Cooperative (ALECO) has prevented the cooperative and its customers from grid and power supply disconnection for the next 12 months, at least. In a...
Power utility giant Manila Electric Company (Meralco) is extending the suspension of its power service disconnections in Metro Manila and four other provinces in Luzon following the enforcement of modified enhanced community quarantine (MECQ) protocols in these areas. The extension of...
The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) should direct its distribution utilities (DUs) to suspend all disconnection activities within its franchise area that are placed under enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) and modified ECQ, Senator Sherwin Gatchalian said Thursday. Gatchalian, chair of the...
There will be no water disconnection services during the Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) period from August 6 to 20, according to Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System Regulatory Office (MWSS RO). 23968 On Wednesday, MWSS-RO directed Manila Water Company, Inc. and Maynilad Water Services,...
The State’s re-imposition of enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) because of the surging Delta variant-induced coronavirus infections will also mean going back to the old routine for power utility giant Manila Electric Company (Meralco) on suspending ‘electricity service disconnections’ to...
Power utility giant Manila Electric Company (Meralco) is stretching anew its ‘no disconnection policy’ on its electricity services to consumers with unpaid bills – and that will be until May 14 or throughout the duration of the extended modified enhanced community quarantine (MECQ) within the...
With just a relatively minor easing on the quarantine protocols within the so-called NCR plus bubble, power utility giant Manila Electric Company (Meralco) was prompted to extend its self-imposed policy on “no disconnection of services” until the end of this month. Essentially, that will be for...
The Department of Energy (DOE) has officially directed power distribution utilities and electric cooperatives (ECs) on ‘extended no-disconnection policy’ for lifeline residential customers or those that have electricity consumption of 100 kilowatt-hours or less. In an advisory issued by the...
Filipino consumers will be spared from worrying over electricity service interruptions or brownouts during the Christmas holidays, as the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) formalized its order of “no electricity service disconnection’ until December 31 this year. (MANILA BULLETIN) The...
It will be detrimental for Maynilad Water Services Inc. if the government decides to extend the moratorium on the issuance of water service disconnection notice to consumers, a Maynilad official said. As for Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) Chief Regulator Patrick Ty, he said a...
